xml-dev - RE: what Napster means for XML

["Kohn, Joav" <Joav.Kohn@getronics.com>]

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the problem with the peer-to-peer model is that it doesn't
really fit with the majority of corporate security policies.

napster works great because the target user group
is a bunch of college kids and home users.

most of the information stored in the world
is held in corporate repositories,
and those repositories lie behind
those damn corporate firewalls,
which won't be allowing
peer-to-peer communication
to occur willy-nilly any time soon.

given that,
it's hard to see how a peer-to-peer system
could be shaped any differently than
the way the web works now.....

joav kohn
 information architect II
 e-solutions group
 getronics
 http://www.getronics.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@simonstl.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 2:32 PM
> To: David Megginson; XML-Dev List
> Subject: Re: what Napster means for XML
> 
> 
> Agreed - but right now it seems like most vendors and many others are
> focusing on the client-server model as TSTEP (The Solution...) while
> peer-to-peer isn't getting much attention.
> 
> Perhaps it's just that the client-server model is a better fit for the
> approach relational vendors have encouraged over the years, 
> but I'd like to
> think XML opens up a wider range of possibilities than 
> centralized data
> warehousing and widely distributed but barely shared binary files have
> provided so far.
> 
> Peer-to-peer needs a lot of infrastructure work and no small amount of
> selling to catch on, but it seems like critical work to me.
> 
> Simon St.Laurent
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> http://www.simonstl.com
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