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So it isn't Web architecture if it doesn't use HTTP? After all Gnutella magnet links (and their interesting use of the urn:sha1 scheme) also provide a way to link to P2P content. -- PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@p...] > Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 8:48 PM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: P2P and URIs > > > People often think that P2P and the web architecture do not > fit but there is a wicked bit of Python programming called > "BitTorrent" that serves HTTP-URI-addressed information in a > peer-to-peer manner that totally reduces processor load on > the machine serving the canonical representation. Presumably > BitTorrent treats a URL as an identifier: it looks around to > see who else has the Identified information and streams you > the bits from that alternate Location. It is great how well > it fits into and extends existing web architecture by > recognizing that sometimes an HTTP URL does not have to be > treated as procedural code. > -- > "When I walk on the floor for the final execution, I'll wear a denim > suit. I'll walk in there like Willie Nelson, John Wayne, Will Smith > - Men in Black - James Brown. Maybe do a Michael Jackson > moonwalk." Congressman James Traficant. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org > <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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