The Grapevine Project

Bram Cohen bram@gawth.com
Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:31:34 -0800 (PST)


On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Wei Dai wrote:

> Does Grapevine fit into the "three services" model I described at
> http://www.mail-archive.com/bluesky%40franklin.oit.unc.edu/msg00012.html?

I don't know about grapevine, but BitTorrent skips over your step 2 and
does a straing url -> content mapping. It's the result of the goal of
seamless web integration - that middle step is just extraneous.

-Bram Cohen

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