[p2p-hackers] Google releases something P2P

[Alex Pankratov]

Bram Neijt wrote:
>
> [The P2P component] "Negotiates, establishes, and maintains
> peer-to-peer connections through almost any network configuration
> regardless of NAT devices and firewalls. The p2p component understands
> the Jingle spec to initiate the session and then provides a
> sockets-like interface for sending and receiving data that is used by
> the session component to add functionality."
> 

Tunneling method summary (based on what's in the actual code) -

STUN-based NAT traversal complimented by an option of relaying
data through 3rd node for cases that STUN cannot handle.

Alex