Peer to Peer

By: David Anderson and Nimisha Asthagiri and Dan Brickley and Dan Bricklin and Alan Brown and Avinash Chugh and Lorrie Cranor and Roger Dingledine and Rael Dornfest and Michael Freedman and Marc Hedlund and Theodore Hong and Gene Kan and Adam Langley and Richard Lethin and Jeremie Miller and Nelson Minar and David Molnar and Tim O'Reilly and Aviel Rubin and Clay Shirky and Walter Tuvell and Jon Udell and Marc Waldman and Brandon Wiley

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Synopsis: 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. The contributors are leading developers of well-known peer-to-peer systems, such as Gnutella, Freenet, Jabber, Popular Power, SETI@Home, Red Rover, Publius, Free Haven, Groove Networks, and Reputation Technologies. Topics include metadata, performance, trust, resource allocation, reputation, security, and gateways between systems.