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This text contains practical explorations of peer-to-peer technologies that enable the reader to quickly implement and leverage P2P. There are clear definitions, real-world examples, practical technology explorations, and no-nonsense solutions, along with 16 pages of blueprints that map out sample peer-to-peer network designs to help to place the information in a visual context for the reader.
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. xvii |
| P2P Defined | p. 1 |
| Direct Exchanges Between Peers | p. 2 |
| P2P and the Internet | p. 3 |
| A Concise P2P Definition | p. 4 |
| Why Is P2P Important, and How Is It Implemented? | p. 8 |
| The Value of P2P | p. 8 |
| P2P Saves Time | p. 9 |
| The Technical Value of P2P | p. 11 |
| P2P Leverages Internet Openness | p. 11 |
| P2P Leverages Technology Standards | p. 13 |
| P2P Leverages Personal Computer Hardware | p. 13 |
| P2P Leverages Personal Computer Information and Application Services | p. 14 |
| P2P Offers a Fully Distributed Symmetric Architecture | p. 15 |
| The P2P Value Proposition | p. 15 |
| One-to-One P2P Value | p. 16 |
| One-to-Many P2P Value | p. 16 |
| Many-to-Many P2P Value | p. 16 |
| P2P Context Value | p. 17 |
| Real-World Examples | p. 18 |
| SFLAN | p. 18 |
| Roku | p. 19 |
| Groove | p. 19 |
| SETI@home | p. 19 |
| Jabber | p. 20 |
| Social Impacts of P2P | p. 21 |
| A Part of the Woodwork | p. 21 |
| Modes of Interaction | p. 21 |
| Immediacy | p. 22 |
| Intimacy | p. 23 |
| Utility | p. 25 |
| Control | p. 26 |
| The Dark Side of P2P | p. 27 |
| What Makes P2P Important to You | p. 28 |
| Summary | p. 29 |
| The P2P City Tour: Existing Solutions Ready Now | p. 31 |
| The P2P City Tour: Existing Solutions Ready Now | p. 32 |
| The P2P Safari: Possibilities and Promises | p. 32 |
| What You'll Learn Along the Way | p. 33 |
| The Current Landscape Map for P2P | p. 34 |
| P2P Resource Product and Services | p. 36 |
| File Sharing | p. 37 |
| Distributed Computation | p. 40 |
| Distributed Search | p. 41 |
| P2P Collaboration Product and Services | p. 45 |
| Basic Collaboration Product and Services | p. 46 |
| Gaming | p. 52 |
| Instant Messaging | p. 54 |
| City Tour Summary | p. 57 |
| A Safari into the Software Developer's World | p. 59 |
| P2P Enablers | p. 60 |
| Infrastructure | p. 62 |
| Distributed Objects | p. 66 |
| Development Frameworks | p. 70 |
| Messaging Frameworks | p. 73 |
| Open Source Software--What's It All About? | p. 77 |
| Advantages and Disadvantages of Open Source Software | p. 78 |
| Getting Involved | p. 78 |
| In-the-Net P2P Services | p. 78 |
| Jungle Tour Summary | p. 82 |
| Tour Conclusions | p. 83 |
| New Paradigms Require New Thinking | p. 83 |
| New Paradigms Require Old Thinking | p. 84 |
| New Paradigms Require Unconventional Wisdom | p. 86 |
| Of Names and Addresses | p. 89 |
| The Naming of Things | p. 90 |
| Is There a Difference Between a Name and an Address? | p. 91 |
| Telegraphy--The Victorian Internet | p. 92 |
| The Telephone Age--Reach Out and Address Someone | p. 94 |
| Finally, the Internet | p. 96 |
| Alternative Namespaces | p. 97 |
| What's Next? | p. 98 |
| Dealing with Addressing | p. 99 |
| The Role of Internet Protocol | p. 99 |
| The Role of Hypertext Transfer Protocol | p. 100 |
| Dynamic DNS Addressing | p. 100 |
| Peering Through the Firewall | p. 102 |
| Other Protocols | p. 103 |
| Architectures for Connecting Resources | p. 103 |
| The Content-Addressable Web for P2P | p. 108 |
| Instant Messaging | p. 111 |
| Instant Messaging: Just a New Kind of E-Mail? | p. 114 |
| Instant Messaging Architecture | p. 115 |
| Roaming Mobility: Part 1 | p. 119 |
| Summary | p. 120 |
| Supporting P2P: Architecture Matters | p. 121 |
| Where Do You Start with Architecture? | p. 123 |
| Putting the Architecture Team to Work | p. 126 |
| Securing Your Peer (Featuring the Security Guard) | p. 126 |
| The Security Guard's Security Acid Test | p. 129 |
| Making Your Peer Almost Always Available (Featuring the Training Coach) | p. 130 |
| Redundancy | p. 130 |
| Loose Coupling | p. 131 |
| Backup and Recovery | p. 133 |
| The Training Coach's Availability Acid Test | p. 134 |
| Making Your Peer Easy to Use, Administer, and Maintain (Featuring the User Advocate and the Administrator) | p. 135 |
| The Making Your Peer Easy to Use, Administer, and Maintain Acid Test | p. 138 |
| Distributing the Peer Workload (Featuring the Coach) | p. 138 |
| Four Forms for Solution Distribution | p. 139 |
| Dealing with Sometimes-Disconnected Peers | p. 144 |
| The Training Coach's Distribution Acid Test | p. 145 |
| Remembering Important Information: A True Sign of P2P Intelligence (Featuring the Accountant) | p. 145 |
| Files and File Systems | p. 147 |
| Databases | p. 147 |
| Comparison of Information Storage Choices | p. 148 |
| The Accountant's Information Management Acid Test | p. 149 |
| Being a GOOD Peer by Adhering to Standards (Featuring the Inspector) | p. 149 |
| Dealing with Disagreeable Peers | p. 153 |
| Standards "Extensions" | p. 154 |
| Standards Summary | p. 154 |
| The Inspector's Standards Acid Test | p. 155 |
| Establishing a Home for Your Peer (Featuring the Pilot) | p. 155 |
| Avoiding Turbulence | p. 157 |
| The Pilot's Portability Acid Test | p. 159 |
| Architecture Approach | p. 159 |
| Summary | p. 160 |
| Getting P2P Enabled | p. 163 |
| Getting Connected | p. 165 |
| Connecting Your WAN | p. 165 |
| Connecting Your LAN | p. 173 |
| Getting Secure | p. 181 |
| How Many Network Listeners Do You Have? | p. 182 |
| Implementing System Security | p. 185 |
| Monitoring Your Security | p. 189 |
| Protecting Against Viruses | p. 190 |
| Getting Known | p. 190 |
| Getting Known with a Fixed IP Address | p. 191 |
| Getting Known with a Variable IP Address | p. 192 |
| Summary | p. 196 |
| Getting Together: P2P Collaboration | p. 199 |
| Why Is Collaboration a Critical Tool? | p. 200 |
| The Groove Experience | p. 201 |
| Installing Groove | p. 201 |
| Exploring a Groove Space | p. 204 |
| Mining Presence | p. 205 |
| Staying Alert | p. 208 |
| Sharing Documents | p. 208 |
| Tooling Along | p. 210 |
| Maintaining Your Identity | p. 211 |
| Summarizing Groove | p. 215 |
| The Magi Experience | p. 215 |
| Gift of (the) Magi | p. 215 |
| Installing Magi | p. 217 |
| Using Magi with a NAT'd LAN | p. 221 |
| Exploring the Magi User Experience | p. 222 |
| Buddying Up | p. 224 |
| Indicating Presence | p. 226 |
| Sharing Folders and Establishing Collaboration Groups | p. 226 |
| Using Mobile Magi | p. 227 |
| Accessing Magi via a Remote WAP Phone | p. 230 |
| Searching in a Magi Peer Group | p. 234 |
| Working with Metadata Rather Than Actual Data | p. 240 |
| Summarizing Magi | p. 241 |
| Summary | p. 241 |
| Getting Entertained: P2P Music and Video | p. 243 |
| Music | p. 244 |
| Getting Music | p. 244 |
| Playing Music | p. 252 |
| Broadcasting P2P Music: Your P2P Radio Station | p. 254 |
| Music Summary | p. 262 |
| Video | p. 263 |
| Getting Video and Graphics | p. 264 |
| Creating Video | p. 265 |
| Broadcasting P2P Video: Your P2P TV Station | p. 271 |
| P2P and Web Servers: The P2P Aggregator | p. 277 |
| Video Summary | p. 278 |
| Summary | p. 279 |
| Getting to Tomorrow: The Future of P2P | p. 281 |
| Home Gateways | p. 283 |
| Going Wireless via LANs | p. 283 |
| Going Wireless via Mobile Devices | p. 285 |
| Designing for Mobile P2P | p. 285 |
| A Mountain Won't Fit in a Teacup | p. 286 |
| Product Simplicity Wins | p. 287 |
| No Watch Cursor, No Modes | p. 289 |
| Maximize Predictability | p. 290 |
| Additional Rules for Mobile P2P Design | p. 290 |
| Maintain Contextual Consistency | p. 290 |
| Untrap Information | p. 290 |
| Disintermediate Tools | p. 291 |
| P2P Is Not the Web | p. 292 |
| Searching Should Replace Synchronization | p. 294 |
| Mobile Capabilities | p. 295 |
| Who Will Win the Mobile P2P Prize? | p. 296 |
| The Role of VUI (Voice User Interface) in P2P | p. 299 |
| Agents and P2P | p. 300 |
| P2P Agents Are Not Tools | p. 301 |
| Peer-to-Peer Computing and Agent Technology | p. 306 |
| The Importance of Context in P2P | p. 307 |
| The Web Server Is Everywhere | p. 309 |
| Web Services | p. 309 |
| Creating a Personal Web Services Engine | p. 312 |
| The True Cost of Information | p. 313 |
| P2P as an Information Utility | p. 314 |
| P2P and Warfighting | p. 317 |
| Command and Control Vision | p. 317 |
| Intelligence Analysis | p. 322 |
| Summary | p. 322 |
| Index | p. 325 |
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ISBN: 9780072192841
ISBN-10: 0072192844
Series: Network Professional's Library
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 364
Published: 28th November 2001
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 19.0
x 1.9
Weight (kg): 0.627
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