[p2p-hackers] Re: Interoperable distribution networks, was Re: Identify "defective" nodes

[coderman]

On 28 Feb 2006 19:33:13 GMT, Raphael Manfredi
<Raphael_Manfredi at pobox.com> wrote:
> Quoting coderman <coderman at gmail.com> from ml.p2p.hackers:
> :one way in which this might be useful is download queues, where a
> :number of files are scheduled for downloading over a number of
> :distribution/transport networks.
>
> To have inter-operable distribution networks, it would help if all
> said distribution networks used the same identification for files and
> the same download protocol.

a bitzi like service might be helpful when resource identifiers were
not shared; you could use the bitzi service to locate other
identifiers given the one you know already. (http://bitzi.com)

but yes, it would be much better to simply pick a common identifier
(i'd highly recommend SHA2-256 or 512 at this point) universally
supported by all networks.