Peer to Peer

A Beginner's Guide

By: Dana Moore, John Hebeler

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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.

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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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