strengths and weaknesses of Gnutella; was: Gnutella 3

Hi, 

Here are some more strength and weaknesses: 

Am Samstag, 27. Februar 2010 10:05:17 schrieb Arne Babenhauserheide:

> Best as a one-week brainstorm first (that means: free listing of perceived
> strength and weaknesses and no criticising of others opinions). 

> + Strength: Requires very little bandwidth for global connectivity (a leaf
> can run off a 56k Modem, an UP off a ISDN line).
> 
> + Strength: Powerful fully decentral swarming [additional note: with full 
file verification using tiger tree hashing]. 

+ Strength: Seperation of exact search (locating sources) and fuzzy search 
(looking for content; p2p Google) into two optimized networks (original GNet + 
DHT; one tool for one task). 

+ Strength: Can use standard http sources as seed files for downloads. 


> - Weakness: No included community building (like torrent sites with
> statistcs and verification).

- Weakness: Hard to write a new servent which connects to Gnutella (harder for 
new developers to get in). 

- Weakness: No easy (and low overhead) way to do specialized searches (like 
regexp or metadata - like “show me articles written by Richard M. Stallman”). 

- Weakness: No integration into desktop applications (like jabber clients for 
finding first connections - or Gnutella for file transfer: “hey, wait, let me 
send you this file” -> if the other is Gnutella enabled, send a magnet with me 
as first source and automatically enter the swarm for awesome download speeds). 


> Please add the strengths and weaknesses you see (in short) which weren't
> yet named.

Best wishes, 
Arne


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