From: Matt Levine (no email)
Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 16:02:33 EDT
On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, at 3:59PM, Jack Bates wrote:
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> Matt Levine wrote:
>> Gomez seems to be trying to do this, with a monetary incentive:
>> http://www.porivo.com/peernetwork/jsp/index.jsp
>
> Test is narrowed to webserver performance and is limited in the actual
> test methods. From what I can tell, it says nothing about network
> performance except in the most general aspects (I can download a page
> from network X faster than network Y). Since it is testing webservers
> and workload is provided by a central site, there is no peer to peer
> interaction or discovery. The RIPE-NNC tests are much more related to
> what I was refering to, although they are limited in many reguards.
Indeed, but some tweaking to the software could have it act in a more
broad nature, my point was simply that there's somebody trying to build
a metric-oriented 'network' of end-user nodes, similar to SETI (though
obviously a commercial venture, in this case).
>
> -Jack
>
>
-- Matt Levine <> "The Trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was." -BIX
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