Are these people for real? P2P is inherently a scale-free network, which, if designed properly is logically immune from disruptions because of its own inherent complexity. The only danger to P2P is when it exists as a derivation of a process that is not inherently complex. Meaning: an airplane is a complex system, but such a system is dependent on lift overcoming drag and gravity. When lift no longer overcomes drag and gravity (ie, engine failure, wing popping off), the complex system collapses.
[…] On the Mac, however, I had no trouble logging in this morning, but the client kept crashing. If a software upgrade from Microsoft (or for that matter any other OS vendor) can render Skype, one of the largest P2P services useless, then P2P economy is standing on shaky ground. Update: On second thoughts, I want to be clear that if you are going to build a mass market consumer service on P2P and use authentication servers or add layers on top of the basic architecture, then you are on shaky ground and need to build in some sort of redundancy. (Thanks Ethan, for showing me the light!) […]
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Alongside traffic shaping and layer 7 packet filtering. P2P depends on a dumb network, but if the carriers make a network that is too smart the users will disappear because the utility will be gone.
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