David Barrett wrote:
So the question is:- Do you truly want to standardize a P2P protocol to ensure open, seamless interoperation between multiple implementations by different vendors? - Or do you merely want an off-the-shelf (though possibly non-standard) package to accelerate the creation of a closed system?
I'm not fishing for an implementation. ;-) I think you've overlooked two benefits of standardisation, though.
First, standards reduce duplication of effort by making knowledge portable across projects - you only need to learn how to use sockets once, and you can use that knowledge on 100 projects, regardless of whether they interoperate.
Second, standards codify knowledge that might otherwise need to be rediscovered - how long would it take to implement TCP over UDP without the RFCs? I don't think it's a bad thing that there are currently several ways of doing TCP over UDP, but should people really be reinventing this wheel in ten years' time?
Anyway this is starting to sound like I'm asking other people to do work, which wasn't my intention, so I'll shut up. :-)
Cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
