A More Enlightened Approach to P2P From 'Old Europe'

Wed Feb 20 18:24:12 UTC 2008

I recommend Bill St. Arnaud's daily blog:

[From Dewayne Hendricks list--BSA]

[Note:  This item comes from friend Charles Brown.  DLH]

European Research Project to Shape Next Generation Internet TV
<http://www.p2p-next.org/>

Brussels, 19 February 2008 - P2P-Next, a pan-European conglomerate of 
21 industrial partners, media content providers and research 
institutions, has received a €14 million grant from the European 
Union. The grant will enable the conglomerate to carry out a research 
project aiming to identify the potential uses of peer-to-peer (P2P) 
technology for Internet Television of the future. The partners, 
including the BBC, Delft University of Technology, the European 
Broadcasting Union, Lancaster University, Markenfilm, Pioneer and VTT 
Technical Research Centre of Finland, intend to develop a Europe-wide 
“next-generation” internet television distribution system, based on 
P2P and social interaction.

P2P-Next statement:

“The P2P-Next project will run over four years, and plans to conduct a 
large-scale technical trial of new media applications running on a 
wide range of consumer devices. If successful, this ambitious project 
could create a platform that would enable audiences to stream and 
interact with live content via a PC or set top box. In addition, it is 
our intention to allow audiences to build communities around their 
favourite content via a fully personalized system.

This technology could potentially be built into VOD services in the 
future and plans are underway to test the system for broadcasting the 
2008 Eurovision Song Contest live online.

We will have an open approach towards sharing results. All core 
software technology will be available as open source, enabling new 
business models. P2P-Next will also address a number of outstanding 
challenges related to content delivery over the internet, including 
technical, legal, regulatory, security, business and commercial 
issues.” =

Roderick S. Beck
Director of European Sales
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