Hi Arnaud, Can you make clear what do you mean about "P2P localization"?
2006/10/17, Arnaud Legout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi, your question is representative of the widespread belief there is about P2P. Until recently all researches/products/interest were on P2P localization. P2P localization is fun, a nice problem to work on, and it may have many applications, but you can always do better with a client server model (as you pointed out with the google example). Juuso is right that google is rich and has a great infrastructure, but I do not believe that any P2P solution would be able to provide even 1/100 of the service provided by google web indexing (in terms of accuracy, responsiveness, indexation, etc.) Then if you scale down to something that P2P can handle, you have an affordable equivalent in the client server model. If you take apart legal issues and censorship and do not see strong arguments in favor of P2P localization. However, P2P is not only about localization. If you consider P2P file replication, then you have a service that no other infrastructure can offer at a reasonable cost (unless you have multicast, but probably we will never see multicast to the end-user widely deployed). The future of P2P comes from is ability to provide a huge capacity of service without any dedicated infrastructure. Regards, Arnaud. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
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