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TankGirl · 30-05-03, 01:04 PM

Thanks for another major news digest, Jack.

There's a lot interesting going on as usual but one of the news that caught my attention was that of the totally revamped WinMX version 4 being under works. There are many good things on their agenda - one of the most potential is their idea to introduce 'persistent WPN entries', or permanent peer identities, whichever way you want to call them. This is a key feature upon which (especially if the implementation is secure) a lot of novel and interesting functionality can be built. When some of the larger decentralized p2p networks start to support permanent and verifiable peer identities and network-wide peer searches, they are ready to start competing with ICQ, MSN and other instant messaging services.

- tg

30-05-03, 01:04 PM	#3
TankGirl Madame Comrade Join Date: May 2000 Location: Area 25 Posts: 5,587	Thanks for another major news digest, Jack. There's a lot interesting going on as usual but one of the news that caught my attention was that of the totally revamped WinMX version 4 being under works. There are many good things on their agenda - one of the most potential is their idea to introduce 'persistent WPN entries', or permanent peer identities, whichever way you want to call them. This is a key feature upon which (especially if the implementation is secure) a lot of novel and interesting functionality can be built. When some of the larger decentralized p2p networks start to support permanent and verifiable peer identities and network-wide peer searches, they are ready to start competing with ICQ, MSN and other instant messaging services. - tg