[p2p-hackers] p2p in some place or other

[Travis Kalanick]

One of the more interesting topics that came up from our sushi-get-together
was a fairly rigorous discussion about the merits (or lack thereof) of
Proactive Caching.  

Let's define Proactive Caching as a mechanism where a P2P network sends
content to a user's machine for the sole purpose of improving network
performance and availability.  For instance, imagine that a given network
proactively caches "long tail" content to improve availability, or
alternatively, proactively caches content during a sudden surge of demand
for a particular file.

Deep in this discussion at the dinner (this took place in the hours after
most folks left) was Sergei, David Barrett, myself, and others, and I
thought it would be good to bring this topic to the list.

So far, in my opinion, proactive caching on open p2p networks would provide
little temporal benefit in availability and performance, given the inherent
costs of such a scheme, and given the availability of high-performance,
high-reliability p2p architectures.

Travis

-----Original Message-----
From: p2p-hackers-bounces at zgp.org [mailto:p2p-hackers-bounces at zgp.org] On
Behalf Of Wolfgang Mueller
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 7:15 AM
To: Peer-to-peer development.
Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] p2p in some place or other

Dear SF peers,

Would it be possible to spice these reports up by 
publishing not only a writeup of the menu but also 
of your topics? BTW I am munching typically 
German Christmas cookies here... And don't denigrate 
places that enjoy a winter recognizable as such :-D . 

And: imagine a Bavarian beer-to-beer meeting. People here confuse b,p,d
and t, anyway, so let's use this ambiguity :-D

Cheers,
Wolfgang

--
Dr. Wolfgang Mueller
LS Medieninformatik
Universitaet Bamberg
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