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Originally posted by pod
So might a regular Internet message, technically. Even currently there are all kinds of business and political reasons that cause packets destined to my neighbour (who's on a different ISP) go half-way around the world instead of some local interchange point.
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correct. however, the article has a point: gnutella ignores the geographical locations of its nodes, making it
on average less efficient than the underlying IP network.
the article/research gets it wrong though by implying that all current P2P architectures are similar to gnutella, and applying their results to other P2P networks.
plus, saying that open source protocols are inherently more flexible than closed source ones, is not true at all. as we've seen with gnutella, new protocol features must be agreed upon and implemented by the numerous independent client developers before they are to succeed.
- jaan