Hi, I've seen P2P mentioned in an old presentation about necko, but digging around the source it doesn't look like it has been pursued. Can anyone fill me in on the history/status of P2P going into mozilla/firefox? Is anyone currently working on or thinking about building better support for P2P? I've seen the AllPeers extension, but it doesn't seem to be open source so that doesn't help the platform as a whole.
I've been working for a little while on a research extension to build a P2P network of browsing clients that would form into groups based on interest, and so far all the networking has been in javascript using JSON-RPC over the async-sockets provided by Necko. I haven't added anything yet with respect to NAT traversal, but that seems to be the next big hurdle. That also seems like a good place to start if building in support for P2P were a goal for continued Necko development. I will be doing this eventually for my own project, but since it is open source anyway I figured it would be ideal if I could join forces with you guys and to hopefully get it rolled into the library. What do you think? -Jeff PhD Student University of Lugano Switzerland _______________________________________________ dev-tech-network mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-network
