On Thursday, November 01, 2007 John Nilsson wrote:
> Are the dwellers of this list involved in (or otherwise have
> opinions about) the Pirate Bays attempt to engineer a BitTorrent
> replacement?[1]
Looks interesting - but OTOH, who am I to judge; I find almost
everything related to P2P interesting :-)
Hard to filter out the original plan among all the suggestions,
though - there are almost hundred Wikei edits in the past 20 hours
alone, so it is difficult to say which of those are going to be
treated seriously and which will never merit a second look. Some
of these suggestions are quite interesting - my personal favourites
so far are the whois/BGP suggestions for the traffic containment
within a particular ISP network. Others are less interesting, and
some can probably cripple the network from the start (everything
that requires any user interaction on the software installation
and setup phase, IMHO).
Would be interesting to know who is the driving force behind
all that and what are the problems that are to be solved with this
design effort. The answers to these questions should determine the
fate of most suggestions. What is the goal of all the security and
encryption suggestions, for example? Is containing traffic inside
an ISP an important goal? What about rare content availability? Is
the search functionality even on the map or the central web site is
to be used to look up the content? This kind of stuff.
I mean, the abstract goal of improving BT stated on the main
page does not tell much until the directions of this improvement are
defined. BT works just fine from many points of view, and it is not
a good idea to improve something that works just for fun - there
should be a clear list of areas where BT sucks and what has to be
done to improve that.
In any case, thank you for the link - for sure, it will be very
interesting to see where all this will go, once the initial flood of
suggestions will subside a bit.
Best wishes -
S.Osokine.
1 Nov 2007.
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Subject: [p2p-hackers] The PIrate Bay, BitTorrent and p2p-hackers
Hi,
Are the dwellers of this list involved in (or otherwise have opinions
about) the Pirate Bays attempt to engineer a BitTorrent replacement?[1]
Regards,
John
[1] http://securep2p.net/index.php/ProtocolDesgin
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