Peer-to-peer

Hardcover - 432 pages (February, 2001)
O'Reilly ISBN: 059600110X

This O'Reilly book is available now from Amazon.com and from Barnes and Noble. Marc Waldman, Lorrie Cranor, and Avi Rubin wrote two chapters. Chapter 11 is on Publius and Chapter 15 is on Trust in Distributed Systems.

Preface
Andy Oram

Part I. Context and Overview

Chapter 1. A Network of Peers: Peer-to-Peer Models Through the History of the Internet
Nelson Minar and Marc Hedlund, Popular Power

Chapter 2. Listening to Napster
Clay Shirky

Chapter 3. Remaking the Peer-to-Peer Meme
Tim O'Reilly

Chapter 4. The Cornucopia of the Commons
Dan Bricklin

Part II. Projects

Chapter 5. SETI@home
David Anderson

Chapter 6. Jabber: Conversational Technologies
Jeremie Miller

Chapter 7. Mixmaster Remailers
Adam Langley

Chapter 8. Gnutella
Gene Kan

Chapter 9. Freenet
Adam Langley

Chapter 10. Red Rover: A Distributed Anti-censorship Strategy
Alan Brown

Chapter 11. Publius
Marc Waldman, Lorrie Faith Cranor, and Avi Rubin

Chapter 12. Free Haven
Roger Dingledine, Michael J. Freedman, and David Molnar

Part III. Technical Topics

Chapter 13. Metadata
Rael Dornfest and Dan Brickley

Chapter 14. Performance
Theodore Hong

Chapter 15. Trust
Marc Waldman, Lorrie Faith Cranor, and Avi Rubin

Chapter 16. Accountability
Roger Dingledine, MIT, Michael J. Freedman, MIT, and David Molnar, Harvard University

Chapter 17. Reputation
Richard Lethin

Chapter 18. Groove: Secure Groupware for Real-world Collaboration
Jon Udell, Nimisha Asthagiri, and Walter Tuvell

Chapter 19. Interoperability Through Gateways
Brandon Wiley

Appendix. Directory of Peer-to-Peer Projects

Index

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The term peer-to-peer has come to be applied to networks that expect end-users to contribute their own files, computing time, or other resources to some shared project. Even more interesting than the systems' technical underpinnings are their socially disruptive potential: in various ways they return content, choice, and control to ordinary users.

This book presents the goals that drive the developers of the best-known peer-to-peer systems, the problems they've faced, and the technical solutions they've found. Learn here the essentials of peer-to-peer from leaders of the field:

Marc Hedlund and Nelson Minar of Popular Power, on a history of peer-to-peer
Clay Shirky of acceleratorgroup, on where peer-to-peer is likely to be headed
Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly & Associates, on redefining the public's perceptions
Dan Bricklin, co-creator of Visicalc, on harvesting information from end-users
Gene Kan of Gnutella and GoneSilent.com, on lessons from Gnutella for peer-to-peer technologies
Jeremie Miller of Jabber, on the Internet as a collection of conversations
Adam Langley of Freenet, on Freenet's present and upcoming architecture
David Anderson of SETI@Home, on how SETI@Home created the world's largest computer
Marc Waldman, Lorrie Cranor, and Avi Rubin of AT&T Labs, on the Publius project and Trust in distributed systems
Roger Dingledine, Michael J. Freedman, and David Molnar of Free Haven, on resource allocation and accountability in distributed systems
Alan Brown of Red Rover, on a deliberately low-tech content distribution system
Rael Dornfest of O'Reilly Network and Dan Brickley of W3C, on metadata
Theodore Hong of Freenet, on performance
Richard Lethin of Reputation Technologies, on how reputation can be built online
Jon Udell of BYTE and Nimisha Asthagiri and Walter Tuvell of Groove Networks, on security
Brandon Wiley of Freenet, on gateways between peer-to-peer systems

You'll find information on the latest and greatest systems as well as upcoming efforts in this book. Peer within!

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