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So it isn't Web architecture if it doesn't use HTTP? After all Gnutella
magnet links (and their interesting use of the urn:sha1 scheme) also
provide a way to link to P2P content.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Prescod [mailto:paul@prescod.net]
> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 8:48 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: [xml-dev] P2P and URIs
>
>
> People often think that P2P and the web architecture do not
> fit but there is a wicked bit of Python programming called
> "BitTorrent" that serves HTTP-URI-addressed information in a
> peer-to-peer manner that totally reduces processor load on
> the machine serving the canonical representation. Presumably
> BitTorrent treats a URL as an identifier: it looks around to
> see who else has the Identified information and streams you
> the bits from that alternate Location. It is great how well
> it fits into and extends existing web architecture by
> recognizing that sometimes an HTTP URL does not have to be
> treated as procedural code.
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