[p2p-hackers] Re: scalability

[coderman]

On 12/2/05, Serguei Osokine <Serguei.Osokine at efi.com> wrote:
> ... Gnutella being the first P2P network that
> is not only deployed and developed, but is also *designed* in a fully
> decentralized fashion. Like you say, basically - there is some common
> protocol framework, but within this framework vendors are free to
> develop, publish, and deploy their own protocol extensions, and to
> implement only those extensions of the others that they like.

i'd say IRC falls into this category and definitely predates the
current gnutella cabal.
(i may be a bit biased as i met my wife on irc-2.mit.edu way back when... :)


>         Survival of the fittest proposals in the field, so to speak.
> Design without an architectural committee, voting, or any kind of
> central authority or even consensus on half of the issues.

my favorite kind of design. groupthink is braindead! UML sucks! vi
forevar! etc, etc. *grin*