[LINK] RFI: P2P Traffic 2005-06

[Kim Holburn]

On 2006 Aug 05, at 12:45 PM, Roger Clarke wrote:

> At 12:17 +1000 5/8/06, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> Does mention DNS but not SMTP, ntp, usenet/nntp?
>
> A fair point - but they're hard work to retro-fit the definitions to!

I'm not sure I see the difficulty if DNS is P2P then SMTP should be.   
If you view the world as just SMTP servers then they surely talk in a  
P2P fashion.  In that view clients are outside the edge.

The problem is this definition:
"any device that is acting as a client is able to find one or more  
devices that are performing server-functions;"
Same for DNS and SMTP (and usenet) you have to get started off - have  
an initial server pointed out to you then you're away.
Same for usenet too.

Because they are very early implementations and because they are very  
basic to internet infrastructure they don't have automatic  
configuration but once past that hurdle that they are very P2P like.


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