On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 02:36:54PM -0600, Dave Smith wrote: > Michael Halcrow wrote: > >If you are serious about an academic investigation of P2P, then I > >recommend you forget about Gnutella, KaZaA, or any other > >``best-effort'' shoot-from-the-hip solutions out there. > > Two questions for Mr H: > > Does BitTorrent fall into this category as well, or does it command > more respect in the academic P2P community?
From what I know about BitTorrent, it depends on a tracker, so it fails to satisfy the third requirement in the list I gave (routing information is not evenly distributed among the hosts in the network). > Have you studied mobile agent architecture as well? A bit, as an undergrad w/ Dr. Clement @ BYU. I will be studying more on that later this semester in Dr. Lam's class @ UT Austin, starting at the end of October: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/lam/396m/schedule2005.html Mike .___________________________________________________________________. Michael A. Halcrow Security Software Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center GnuPG Fingerprint: 419C 5B1E 948A FA73 A54C 20F5 DB40 8531 6DCA 8769 Diogenes, having abandoned his search for truth, is now searching for a good fantasy.
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