New P2P network funded by US government

Zardon · Oct 2, 2002, 11:39 AM

A team of government-funded US scientists is building a Peer-2-Peer (P2P) network that they say will solve technical problems with existing P2P networks, such as Gnutella and Kazaa, and might even one day supercede the web.

The network, dubbed the Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems (IRIS), will speed up searches and information transfer over the internet, and aims to foil "Denial of Service" attacks by hackers - in which a web server is swamped with requests for a page until it crashes.

On the web, information is usually kept on a central server. But in IRIS information will be duplicated as its popularity increases, thereby sharing the load over many machines. Shifting the information means the information can dodge an attack.

"It will stop servers from crashing under Denial of Service attacks," says Hari Balakrishnan, a computer scientist based at MIT and a principal researcher on the project.

full article http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992861

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Oct 2, 2002, 04:27 PM

dosent these kinda of underlie what they have being saying about P2P is bad and all and even they do make it can you see all the blocks that itll have it prolly have filters out the ass and wont allow to send certain MP3's and even if it does do allow those then it will prolly be closely monitered.

Zardon · Oct 2, 2002, 09:16 PM

its the classic case of double standards.

~~Sourcer_2002~~ · Oct 3, 2002, 04:34 AM

Whata u know sounds the goverment doesnt it?

JavaFox · Oct 3, 2002, 07:14 AM

It's the RIAA, not the US government, that raises the loudest protests against P2P. I think that there is nothing strange about this -- most people forget that the governement made ARPANet which became the Internet.

Oct 2, 2002, 11:39 AM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	New P2P network funded by US government A team of government-funded US scientists is building a Peer-2-Peer (P2P) network that they say will solve technical problems with existing P2P networks, such as Gnutella and Kazaa, and might even one day supercede the web. The network, dubbed the Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems (IRIS), will speed up searches and information transfer over the internet, and aims to foil "Denial of Service" attacks by hackers - in which a web server is swamped with requests for a page until it crashes. On the web, information is usually kept on a central server. But in IRIS information will be duplicated as its popularity increases, thereby sharing the load over many machines. Shifting the information means the information can dodge an attack. "It will stop servers from crashing under Denial of Service attacks," says Hari Balakrishnan, a computer scientist based at MIT and a principal researcher on the project. full article http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992861

Oct 2, 2002, 04:27 PM	#2
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	dosent these kinda of underlie what they have being saying about P2P is bad and all and even they do make it can you see all the blocks that itll have it prolly have filters out the ass and wont allow to send certain MP3's and even if it does do allow those then it will prolly be closely monitered.

Oct 2, 2002, 09:16 PM	Thread Starter #3
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	its the classic case of double standards.

Oct 3, 2002, 04:34 AM	#4
~~Sourcer_2002~~ BANNED Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Indiana , USA Posts: 2,677 Rep Power: 0	Whata u know sounds the goverment doesnt it?

Oct 3, 2002, 07:14 AM	#5
JavaFox E Pluribus Unum Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,203 Rep Power: 0	It's the RIAA, not the US government, that raises the loudest protests against P2P. I think that there is nothing strange about this -- most people forget that the governement made ARPANet which became the Internet.