[p2p-hackers] A Question about user awareness in p2p

[Greg Bildson]

So, I guess the interesting followup question might be - does OceanStore or
Tapestry, etc, have any unique and easily communicable insight into the
issue of distributed long-term data storage.

Or, do we really need a third class of network participant with closer to
server-like long uptime, perhaps a stable ip and able to dedicate a
meaningful amount of storage.  In this latter case, I'm thinking about
people dedicating a chunk of their linux(/web?) server to a network that
they believe in.

Thanks
-greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: p2p-hackers-bounces at zgp.org [mailto:p2p-hackers-bounces at zgp.org]On
> Behalf Of Anoop Mavilaveettil
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:10 PM
> To: Peer-to-peer development.
> Subject: Re: [p2p-hackers] A Question about user awareness in p2p
>
>
> > I don't see how logging on to a third peer would be any different than
> > logging on to a second peer.  The only potential problem that I
> see is that
> > when moving computer to computer, you can't store state and
> thus need all
> > information (including your own buddy list) stored in a
> distributed database
> > with security and privacy measures in place for access.
>
> Exactly, That exactly is my issue. Couldn't have said it much better I
> guess, my English is real poor to convey ideas -:).
>
> > To achieve this more easily it would be useful to have a third
> class of network
> > resources that could provide a longer lived source of data.
>
> Again, bingo!. If you see my first post, this is exactly where I'm at
> now. Basically having another overlay of super peers which would do
> the indexing and other mundane stuff(some thing like fast track)
> But honestly, I was not really satisfied/happy with the design and
> that's why I posted here. My ideal p2p system( and I know in real
> world, ideal stuff rarely exist) wouldn't/shouldn't need any extra
> infrastructure, except may be some bootstrap nodes. Any one can
> connect, publish information about himself and start working.
>
> > Anyways, this may be totally different from what
> > Sreedhar was asking about but I find it to be an interesting question.
>
> Nope, this is not totally different from what I have in mind and
> infact exactly what I have in mind.
>
> thanks,
> -Sreedhar