Chapter 5. Deploying P2P Solutions
Before getting lost in the technical detail of the different implementations, fascinating as that may be, let’s take a moment to consider the practicalities of choosing and deploying a p2p solution in the first place. In other words, we should try to relate the deployment context and the goals with a general evaluation of the potential benefits and problems that peer technologies might bring.
The individual user usually has great freedom to install any desired peer technology and usually demonstrates a casual attitude to connecting p2p to an external and essentially untrusted network such as the Internet. Therefore, the deployment discussion has a marked bias towards business contexts, where multiple clients ...
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