[P2P-F] RS: structured mapping of real p2p internet infrastructure

[Giovanni Lostumbo]

Also, typo in the previous: XMPP instead of XMMP. Additionally,
Thunderbird/Evolution Mail clients could be included too.  I am replacing
802.11s with Ronja to consider health issues. All parts should be modular,
anyways. Platform compatibilities is of course the issue to discuss.
http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/ronja-open-source-lineofsight?xg_source=activity
My idea is to follow the evolution of the widest fields of the internet, for
some of the latest technologies and to map them to combine it for new
functions (See attachment called p2p convergence- on the right panel). The
idea is inspired by Carl Woese's term, "innovation sharing protocols"
http://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0605036 and his idea of a "denim fence" "model"
of evolution as in the attached illustration

Two of the latest developments in the fields of HDD storage capacity and
microprocessors of last year are the advancing beyond the 2.19Terabyte
limit:
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2373917,00.asp (though using
64-bit OSs, GPT, and UEFI are part of newer platform requirements that do
this by default)
And and recent developments in the Einstein-Bose condensate:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/11/26/2059208/German-Scientists-Create-Bose-Einstein-Condensate-Using-Photons(which
may extend Moore's Law further into the future), then it is possible
to combine these technologies to do much more as a client than a server
would typically do.
A third example of this is less of a breakthrough, but a more applicable
technology and rather a sequential development in consumer microprocessing
capabilities, is AMD's 16 core Bulldozer and Intel's SandyBridge 16threaded
8core chips being released in 2011. So, some of the obstacles here are both
ideological and technological. Some technologies available can reproduce the
internet as Fidonet, but the needs/wants of today's users either depend on
or prefer heavy bandwidth for streaming/intensive processing needs. Some p2p
software, as Simon at computerworldUk says, "The field is immature, but
there are exciting experiments in progress." Looking at the bottlenecks of
current technologies and documenting what is needed for the "minimal
infrastructure" is an exciting forefront.

By combining some of these technologies, it may be possible to address
problems such as Wikipedia's storage needs (mentioned recently, if someone
can provide a link?), and having p2p versions of those servers. The same
could follow for Sourceforge.net. A theory I'm considering here is, if the
some data needs of Wikipedia or other large site such as Amazon/online store
increase linearly, and certain breakthroughs in harddrive capacity such as
the link above extend consumer storage capabilities exponentially (e.g
Multi-layer cells/3D disk writing), then as some next gen technologies
physically "shrink", it may be possible to transmit enough internet
application data through 1Gb or 10Gbps^n fibreoptics wires, or wireless mesh
protocols such as Ronja. If tomorrow's off-the-shelf computers can handle
the needs of today's mega server farms, it's possible that the exponential
increases in multi-core computers with enough storage will be able to manage
the needs of a real p2p infrastructure's most commonly used web
applications.

Trends in server architecture include low-power, high density processors:
512 Intel atom chips running at less than 2Kwh:
http://www.anandtech.com/print/3768/
And potentially, ARM microprocessors applied to this technique, or Intel
Chips that run at 1-100mw per core. and are stacked similarly to SeaMicro's
setup. Thus, in the future, converging these trends, as an estimate, it's
possible a consumer desktop would run at less than 1 watt- use 48 cores,
using 2mw each, and can handle massively parallel p2p internet storage
compression and decompression (or RAW uncompressed data functions) with up
to 18 exabytes of storage capacity using 64-bit processors and the
accompanying RAM possible (16 Exabytes).
But in the near-term, it may be possible to do that with:
Using an 8 or 16 core Zambezi/Bulldozer chip would allow faster
decompression and compressions of .rar/.zip ,etc files of p2p Wikipedia
discussion/page edits and transmitted across networks, addressing
bottlenecks of bandwidth however possible. This isn't an advertisement- just
an academic exercise in alternative network infrastructure theories.

Giovanni

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Giovanni Lostumbo <
giovanni.lostumbo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> As there are many ways do map an infrastructure, one idea I've thought
> about was having all p2p software and operating system package either
> pre-installed on a computer and/or available on a GNU GPL distro (like or
> using aspects of GNUnet). The attached illustration is based on a
> partial-mesh topology 3 links/node in a 9 computer network (I merely
> included duplicate software lists at each PC to illustrate the example of
> modular and compatible PCs in any network). This could be scaled up, but
> might need a different software that can readily adapt to different
> topologies.
>
> Giovanni Lostumbo
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Sepp Hasslberger <sepp at lastrega.com>wrote:
>
>> I will be happy to scout out technologies and evaluate them to contribute
>> to this kind of listing.
>>
>> Much of the work is actually ongoing, things are being published on the
>> p2p blog and the p2p Ning group site - many of those articles can be just
>> collected and used for the mapping of the infrastructure.
>>
>> You are quite right Michel, a listing of all those things together would
>> be a good resource for anyone attempting to get up to speed on what is
>> there, with a view of building up something of their own.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Sepp
>>
>>
>>  *"The individual is supreme and finds the way through intuition"*
>>
>> http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/
>> http://www.laleva.org
>> http://blog.hasslberger.com/
>> http://www.facebook.com/hasslberger
>> http://twitter.com/healthsupreme
>>
>> .
>>
>> On Jan 8, 2011, at 8:51 PM, Fuster, Mayo wrote:
>>
>>  Hello!
>>
>> I am very interested in the mapping of P2P infrastructure.
>>
>> I think we need to build an actor around it. The firts step is to make
>> clear what would define a P2P/free and open infrastructure, whatever you
>> want to call it. This was one of the goals behind the infrastructure part of
>> Fcforum 2010 declaration (
>> http://wiki.fcforum.net/index.php?title=Collective_editing_Infrastructure_part_final_declaration).
>> The second step would be to map the P2P infrastructure. And the third step
>> to create an alliance between those resources.
>>
>> On the mapping part, I would be happy to contribute and be part of a group
>> of people interested on developing it.
>>
>> Cheers! Mayo
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
>>
>> -----Missatge original-----
>> De: Sepp Hasslberger [mailto:sepp at lastrega.com <sepp at lastrega.com>]
>> Enviat el: ds. 08/01/2011 16:37
>> Per a: Michel Bauwens
>> A/c: p2p-foundation; Fuster, Mayo; giovanni.lostumbo at gmail.com; Douglas
>> Rushkoff; Open Manufacturing
>> Tema: Re: structured mapping of real p2p internet infrastructure
>>
>> Dear Michel,
>>
>> I must defer to you on matters of the wiki. I'm not a wiki editor and I
>> can't insist on how to do things there.
>>
>> My suggestion came from an example I saw in the free energy field, where
>> PESWiki is organized with many sub directories and sub-directories, but it
>> isn't me who did it (I don't even know how to make a new wiki page).
>>
>> I was responding to your message, but wiki isn't my strong side. I'd
>> rather stay on blog-type publishing.
>>
>> It appears we need some volunteers for this
>> putting-stuff-together-on-the-wiki type work.
>>
>> Sepp
>>
>>
>> "The individual is supreme and finds the way through intuition"
>>
>> http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/
>> http://www.laleva.org
>> http://blog.hasslberger.com/
>> http://www.facebook.com/hasslberger
>> http://twitter.com/healthsupreme
>>
>> .
>>
>> On Jan 7, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>>
>> > Dear Sepp,
>> >
>> > from four years of experience, I can say that subcategories are not
>> working on our wiki,
>> >
>> > I'd rather propose that you/we use a specific project tag for this
>> project, like Internet Infrastructure or some such, and other people can
>> still use other tags if they want to same entries to appear somewhere else,
>> >
>> > now if you feel that within that new category, it would benefit from
>> subfields and you are committed to them, of course, I'd have no problem with
>> it,
>> >
>> > as you probably know, within each category, you can use the category
>> page itself for free-range classification and contextualization,
>> >
>> > and of course, all the material we already have in Technology and
>> Standards, can be re-used by retagging in this new more precise context,
>> >
>> > Michel
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Sepp Hasslberger <sepp at lastrega.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Michel,
>> >
>> > I think a wiki entry (or rather a series of entries) would probably be
>> the best format for a collection or a listing of what's out there, what
>> projects are in progress. I could do some work on this, but perhaps we have
>> others who could contribute to the wiki directly.
>> >
>> > It could then also be structured much better, so we don't mix
>> communications infrastructure with p2p manufacturing and other stuff. I see
>> the page on Category:Technology on the wiki has a bit of everything.
>> >
>> > My idea would be to organize this in a more structured way. Perhaps the
>> Category:Technology could be re-named Category:Technology:Overview and then
>> other pages could go under Category:Technology such as
>> >
>> > Category:Technology:Communication
>> > Category:Technology:Manufacturing
>> > Category:Technology:P2P-Software
>> >
>> > I'm not good at those categorizations, but you get the idea. It would
>> make for less heavy pages on those subcategories, easier to get into and to
>> contribute.
>> >
>> > Sepp
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > "The individual is supreme and finds the way through intuition"
>> >
>> > http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/
>> > http://www.laleva.org
>> > http://blog.hasslberger.com/
>> > http://www.facebook.com/hasslberger
>> > http://twitter.com/healthsupreme
>> >
>> > .
>> >
>> > On Jan 6, 2011, at 8:35 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>> >
>> >> Thanks to Giovanni for this overview,
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Sepp, would you agree to work on some kind of overview mapping of these
>> different projects, in 2011, so that people could easily see what is going
>> on?
>> >>
>> >> what kind of layered organisation schema could we use to make most
>> sense of it?
>> >>
>> >> please also note http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Standards and
>> http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Technology
>> >>
>> >> Michel
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Giovanni Lostumbo <giovanni.lostumbo at gmail.com> Jan 04 05:26AM -0800 ^
>> >>
>> >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Freifunk
>> >>
>> http://www.masternewmedia.org/the-alternative-p2p-wireless-internet-network-the-netsukuku-idea/
>> >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Netsukuku
>> >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/IEEE_802.11s
>> >> also
>> >> "http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/12/non-centralised-
>> >> infrastructure/index.htm:
>> >>
>> >> " * YaCy is a search engine where many nodes share information to
>> >> build a distributed index.
>> >> * Status.Net is a microblogging system that allows users to run
>> >> their own Twitter-like site and federate selected streams with other
>> >> systems.
>> >> * Tahoe-LAFS is a high-redundancy file system that allows many
>> >> systems to contribute to an encrypted and distributed storage system
>> >> which nonetheless remains readable only to the owner of the files and
>> >> not to the owner of the storage
>> >> ....
>> >> * Diaspora will hopefully be a social networking community where
>> >> users can run their own federated "pods", thus owning their personal
>> >> data and directly controlling what is shared with who.
>> >> * OpenPGP encryption is based on self-issued certificates which
>> >> gain authority as a result of a web of trust expressed via user-
>> >> maintained keyrings rather than a hierarchical certificate authority
>> >> system that can be centrally compromised.
>> >> * There is discussion and prototyping of a P2P DNS in progress,
>> >> without a root authority but rather with federated authority...
>> >>
>> >> ... * Various federated identity approaches already exist for
>> >> different use-cases, using mechanisms like OAuth and SAML.
>> >> * Various experiments in using P2PTV video streaming technology
>> >> exist, where the video stream is sourced from nearby users rather than
>> >> always from a central provider.
>> >> * And of course there are many P2P file distribution systems, as
>> >> well as the GNUNet framework project.."
>> >>
>> >> http://www.stanford.edu/~allison/saito.html<http://www.stanford.edu/%7Eallison/saito.html>
>> >> http://www.media-art-online.org/iwat/
>> >>
>> http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Saito:Kenji.html<http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Saito:Kenji.html>
>> >> http://www.watsystems.net/watsystems-translation/english.html
>> >> https://twitter.com/jukux
>> >> http://www.accianco.jp/
>> >> http://www2.media-art-online.org/~ks91/gsap2009f-ks91.pdf<http://www2.media-art-online.org/%7Eks91/gsap2009f-ks91.pdf>
>> >> http://www2.media-art-online.org/~ks91/gsap2009f-ks91-doc.pdf<http://www2.media-art-online.org/%7Eks91/gsap2009f-ks91-doc.pdf>
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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