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Originally posted by ReD
Service sharing allows you to advertise these services, letting other users know your running them. If you run an IRC, Opennap or FTP server you can share it with the users of Sphere. They can then search for these services by keywords, when found lauch a defualt (set in options) client to launch to connect to that service. If you want to use a web service then Sphere will launch IE or netscape to connect to that service. If you want to use an IRC service, sphere will launch say mIRC or bitchx to connect.
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Service sharing through p2p in this form is an excellent idea, kudos Mick!
It is very lightweight in bandwidth terms but very potential in connectivity terms. You can expand the functionality of the network to non-p2p software while maintaining the community structure within the p2p domain.
You might want to have some sort of user group system to allow privileged sharing of services to group members. For example, most private FTP server owners would probably not want to advertise their servers publicly to the entire network.
- tg
