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  • From: hal AT finney.org
  • To: bluesky AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: p2p-hackers mailing list starting
  • Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:49:01 -0800


According to the news column at http://www.openp2p.com/, a new mailing
list for coordination and communication between people working on various
peer-to-peer software projects has been started. Here is the initial
welcome message:

: At the first O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference in San Francisco in
: February of 2001, I had the pleasure of meeting and talking to hackers
: who were actively working on peer to peer systems.
:
: The first thing I learned is that we had different words for many
: similar or identical concepts. Much of the early conversation was
: simply trying to understand what the other was saying despite
: different terminology.
:
: The second thing I learned (thanks especially to Wes Felter's
: presentation), was that different p2p designers had made different
: architectural decisions on a few key points, and had never looked back
: after that early architectural decision.
:
: The third thing I learned (thanks especially to Branden Wiley and
: Seguei Osokino, and Wes Felter again) is that interoperability between
: different p2p file-sharing networks looks like an easier hack than I
: would have guessed.
:
: So here is a mailing list which I hope will continue the noble
: tradition of fraternization among p2p hackers. I would like to
: continue the process we've begun of generating common terminology, a
: common architectural taxonomy, and just "nuts and bolts" engineering
: chit-chat about things that are important to all of us, for example
: TCP vs. HTTP (vs. UDP?), MD5 vs. SHA1 (just don't use MD5!), bundled
: meta-data vs. referenced meta-data, and probably a thousand other
: important and interesting details.
:
: Mailing lists are living things, and I expect that I (or someone else)
: will have to replace this welcome message as soon as we evolve away
: from these initial ideas.
:
: Don Marti is the List Maintainer, and we are using his scheme of
: requiring approved registration but approving everyone who asks.
:
: The initial invite list is a bunch of hackers who have specific
: expertise and experience in p2p engineering, and who expressed
: interest in this list. Feel free to invite others that you know who
: can contribute to this list.
:
: Regards, Zooko



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