Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

Tue Aug 31 20:28:30 UTC 2004

To those of "authority", single-point-of-failure equates to "centralized
control".  With the word control in large neon capital letters.

Dave Hilton 
Staff System Administrator 
entelos(r) 
Foster City, CA 

"Notice: I tend to become apprehensive when my position in the food
chain becomes ambiguous." 

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> Surely the big benefits of peer to peer is it takes control way from 
> the center - which will never go down well in Washington when the big 
> Digital Publishers are being so successful at pushing through 
> legislation via WIPO etc.

If they want to start back pedaling, perhaps we should switch to a star 
physical topology instead of mesh..  put the center of the star dead
center in 
Washington where they can baby sit, run a petabit Carnivore system on
it, and 
let corporations with enough money have their weight put on how things
are 
run.

After all.. it is bad design typically to use a star topology for
physical 
networks.. because of one huge single point of failure..  P2P is the
ultimate 
mesh protocol to run on the global mesh network.
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