John Nilsson wrote: > Hi, > > Are the dwellers of this list involved in (or otherwise have opinions > about) the Pirate Bays attempt to engineer a BitTorrent replacement?[1]
I've not been following closely. But I seems like the mainline bit-torrent folks are going closed source, where you can apply and they might let you see the source... IMO clearly unhealthy. A next generation client should have an opensource client that demonstrated the new functionality, define a standard for the DHT, and the protocol (with room for extensions of course). Streaming is an obvious goal, and folks are already trying to do it (tribler and http://distribustream.org/ among others.) Not sure if the next generation torrent should cater to the closed tracker folks or not, if I had my druthers they wouldn't use trackers at all. Kudos for distribustream for being GPL and tribler for being mostly GPL (I've not reviewed the various other licenses mentioned for tribler). Support for a sloppy DHT seems like a big win, dramatically better performance for popular queries. Seems that with millions (1.1M on azureus and compatible clients at the moment) that the performance wins could be significant. Google for sloppy DHT if you want to read a paper on it, good paper, it's the first hit. Ideally a faster DHT would make it easier for clients to find network local clients. Nothing like being on a big swarm behind a limited downlink and not finding other peers behind the same downlink (yes I know about various plugins or adaptations for discovery and manually adding peers). Significantly faster DHT might allow for other yet to be developed applications. Ideally the next generation replacement would figure out the bits required to let a healthy ecosystem of clients provide streaming, discovery of content, reputation and the like. A switch to sha256 checksums for verification and support of signed publishers would be ideal. Torrents basically work, I think someone else needs to replace the mainline bit torrent folks and allow for a slow evolution. Code should be GPL _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
