Re: Does JXTA create hybrid P2P applications?

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No. I don't think the bootstrapping peers make JXTA a hybrid p2p platform.
Any peer can become a rendezvous as far as it has the right credentials to
do it.  Furthermore, as far as I know, bootstrapping is a general problem in
many different p2p settings, but as you said: as soon as a peer can join the
network, the seeding rendezvous are not essencial to the network operation.

I would classify JXTA as a super-node p2p network where there are a set of
super peers (rendezvous and relays) and edge peers that use the super peers
to route messages and join the network. Kaaza and Skype are other examples
of such kind of networks.

On 12/7/06, Robert Crossland <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if JXTA would be classed as a hybrid P2P platform, where
> peers host their own resources and communicate without centralized
> servers, using servers only to initiate communication,  or a Pure P2P
> platform where in the network is completely de-centralized. I ask this
> as even though JXTA does not rely on centralized servers as such, it
> does rely in most cases on hardcoded rendevous peers during
> bootstrapping to learn of other rendezvous peer, so beyond bootstrapping
> they are no longer used. Does this make JXTA a hybrid P2P platform?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Robert
>
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No. I don't think the bootstrapping peers make JXTA a hybrid p2p platform. Any peer can become a rendezvous as far as it has the right credentials to do it.&nbsp; Furthermore, as far as I know, bootstrapping is a general problem in many different p2p settings, but as you said: as soon as a peer can join the network, the seeding rendezvous are not essencial to the network operation.
<br><br>I would classify JXTA as a super-node p2p network where there are a set of super peers (rendezvous and relays) and edge peers that use the super peers to route messages and join the network. Kaaza and Skype are other examples of such kind of networks.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert Crossland</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br><br>I was wondering if JXTA would be classed as a hybrid P2P platform, where<br>peers host their own resources and communicate without centralized<br>servers, using servers only to initiate communication,&nbsp;&nbsp;or a Pure P2P
<br>platform where in the network is completely de-centralized. I ask this<br>as even though JXTA does not rely on centralized servers as such, it<br>does rely in most cases on hardcoded rendevous peers during<br>bootstrapping to learn of other rendezvous peer, so beyond bootstrapping
<br>they are no longer used. Does this make JXTA a hybrid P2P platform?<br>Thanks in advance.<br><br>Robert<br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------<br>To unsubscribe, e-mail: <a href="mailto:[email protected]">
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