<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Dear P2P hackers,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>OPeN stands for Open Peer-to-Peer Network.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">The OPeN library allows developers to build peer-to-peer applications with pluggable services and protocols. The OPeN architecture defines a Connectivity layer, a Core Services layer and an Applications layer. Applications make use of services, while services make use of protocols. Both services and protocols follow a generic API which allows them to be readily reused in a variety of applications.</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">The goal is to bring together peer-to-peer protocol, service and application developers while abstracting their implementation and problem details from each other. This integration allows complex peer-to-peer applications to be built and promotes interoperability across different applications.</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">The distribution includes two protocols, one protocol is based on the Chord algorithm and the other protocol is a connection caching protocol called Floc. The distribution also includes a data service for reading and writing data objects.</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">The software and more information is found here:</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><A href="http://p2p.cs.mu.oz.au/software/OPeN">http://p2p.cs.mu.oz.au/software/OPeN</A></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">Information about the Peer-to-Peer Networks and Applications Research Group is found here:</FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><A href="http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/p2p">http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/p2p</A></FONT></P><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">We have a wiki to collect experience with use of the software:</FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><A href="http://p2p.cs.mu.oz.au/wiki">http://p2p.cs.mu.oz.au/wiki</A></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">Please feel free to contribute to the OPeN project. We would be very happy to assist you to get started.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">-- Aaron</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Courier" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier">- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Courier" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier">Aaron Harwood</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Courier" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier">Department of Computer Science</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Courier" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier">and Software Engineering.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Courier" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier">The University of Melbourne.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Courier" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Courier"><A href="http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~aharwood/">http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~aharwood/</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Courier; min-height: 12.0px"><BR></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>