Inventing the Internet
End-to-end arguments in system design
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace
Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace
Consensus Software: Robustness and Social Good
IEEE Internet Computing
Autonomic Group Protocol for Distributed Systems
ICDCSW '04 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops - W7: EC (ICDCSW'04) - Volume 7
A survey of peer-to-peer content distribution technologies
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Peer-to-Peer Computing in Health-Promoting Voluntary Organizations: A System Design Analysis
Journal of Medical Systems
An autonomic group communication protocol for distributed applications
International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking
An analytical framework for evaluating peer-to-peer business models
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
The social influence model of technology adoption
Communications of the ACM
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Technologies often come wrapped in stories about politics. These stories may not explain the motives of the technologists, but they do often explain the social energy that propels the technology into the larger world. In the case of P2P technologies, the official engineering story is that computational effort should be distributed to reflect the structure of the problem. But the engineering story does not explain the strong feelings P2P computing often evokes. The strong feelings derive from a political story, often heatedly disavowed by technologists but widespread in the culture: P2P delivers on the Internet's promise of decentralization. By minimizing the role of centralized computing elements, the story goes, P2P systems will be immune to censorship, monopoly, regulation, and other exercises of centralized authority.