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Originally posted by Scyth
Yes, it is necessary to know the IP and port of at least one peer in order to bootstrap yourself onto the network.
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which is easier: knowing a few domains (told to you by friends) and being able to work out their ips and ports from there as a gateway into the network, or having to get both from some kind of host cache (the weak point of gnutella in particular)?
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Originally posted by TankGirl
Point 2 fails on open networks because of point 3: your ISP – just like Hilary Rosen and Jack Valenti – is free to enter any open network as a normal peer and access the same information as any other peers
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... unless the network is built on a trust layer - encrypted communications as you say, accompanied by users building their own networks of friends (and friends of friends, etc.) instead of having them automatically built for them by the p2p program. this would make it far easier to remove unwanted peers or files from the network quickly.
in my opinion, the future of p2p doesn't lie in huge, global networks, but in smaller, more personal ones made up of friends and interconnected at certain points.