To those of "authority", single-point-of-failure equates to "centralized control". With the word control in large neon capital letters.
Dave Hilton Staff System Administrator entelos(r) Foster City, CA "Notice: I tend to become apprehensive when my position in the food chain becomes ambiguous." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Parker Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 12:07 PM To: Simon Waters Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Surely the big benefits of peer to peer is it takes control way from > the center - which will never go down well in Washington when the big > Digital Publishers are being so successful at pushing through > legislation via WIPO etc. If they want to start back pedaling, perhaps we should switch to a star physical topology instead of mesh.. put the center of the star dead center in Washington where they can baby sit, run a petabit Carnivore system on it, and let corporations with enough money have their weight put on how things are run. After all.. it is bad design typically to use a star topology for physical networks.. because of one huge single point of failure.. P2P is the ultimate mesh protocol to run on the global mesh network. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFBNMx1xBpDNCKu9WMRAmf6AJsEH1HL7++I5i8nvR4XaP1IlExqQwCgj8wJ C188jcskO0knEdC/YD/KZUk= =lgiU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----