[p2p-hackers] Paradigma Question: DHT's or Small World?

[SIMON Gwendal RD-MAPS-ISS]

Hi, 

> What kind of application scenario suits to this requirements? 
> I think of a networked desktop search application. Similar to 
> Gnutella, some people publish some of its documents, most 
> don't. Some of them are annotated by meta data, probably with 
> the same vocabulary or within the same ontology, some not. 
> Users pose keyword queries, similar in a single desktop 
> search engine.  Queries either match the documents filename, 
> folder or (if any) documents meta data.

Why do you want to restrict search to meta-data ? Google don't ! It must
be possible to perform full-text search...

Besides, how to define a world common ontology that could fit all future
needs ?

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Gwendal Simon
France Telecom R&D
http://solipsis.netofpeers.net