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RE: P2P and URIs

• To: "Paul Prescod" <paul@p...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: P2P and URIs
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 21:02:33 -0700
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• Thread-topic: P2P and URIs

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. 

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> -----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.
> 
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