Introduction

  • Authors:
  • Richard Lethin

  • Affiliations:
  • Reservoir Labs, Inc., New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing has both technical and social components. Both these components share the attraction of distributed control, where computers operating as peers collaborate to achieve an end result without a central authority.