[p2p-hackers] Getting started

[Sam Gentle]

On 11/27/05, Sam Joseph <sam at neurogrid.com> wrote:
> http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/milojicic02peertopeer.html
>
> is another good general review paper on p2p

I'm about halfway through that now - it's quite good, thanks.


On 11/27/05, joejoe99 at softhome.net <joejoe99 at softhome.net> wrote:
> check out http://www.dp2p.net/

Also very nice. I'm only really familiar with MUTE, Freenet and I2P
out of those, so there should be good to have a look through.


On 11/27/05, Jacob Madsen <01771 at iha.dk> wrote:
> If I were you, I would probably read the papers on Kademlia, Chord and Pastry.
> I'm not saying they are the best DHTs around, but those 3 are among the most
> widely used DHTs and will give you an usefull insight in the DHT structure.

I'll definitely have a look at those. I see a lot of references to
DHTs, especially on this list, so it'd be nice to get more familiar
with them. Also, the Tapestry paper explained the mystery of Plaxton
meshes (which really needs a Wikpedia entry), so that's something.


It seems as though in most (all?) of those systems there's some form
of "similarness" mapping between nodes, like with those Plexton meshes
you have common number suffixes. Is that always the case, or just for
certain types of networks?

Sam