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Gnutella2 Specs - Part 1

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the double-your-pleasure dept.

Mr Fodder writes "The first part of the Gnutella2 specs are finally up." Our previous Gnutella2 story has a little more information.

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  1. Re:blah by GeckoFood · · Score: 4, Interesting
    ...gnutella is a failure...

    [snip]

    Actually, what I personally find more frustrating is that when you actually do find what you want, the download fails because either the host drops offline or refuses to accept the connection. Another little irritant is the large number of files out there that are deliberately misnamed so that when you download and open them, you find yourself dropped into someone's personal porn site, regardless of what you're looking for. I used to look for cool stuff like the blooper videos and whatnot, but I got one to many that was deceptively named. Not worth the effort, really...I uninstalled the damn thing and quit trying.

    --
    Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
  2. Feedback rating? by jonr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is there a feedback rating in the Gnutella protocol? Wouldn't it be nice to mark a file+sharer -1, Fake. The more "-" the file gets, the lower it is in the result list. And the sharer should be punished, although I don't know how.
    J.

  3. Re:Not Gnutella2! Shareaza1!!! by Anenga · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The client he works on is "Limewire".

    I find publishing of THE Gnutella2 spec by ONE development team laughable

    Then lets hear you? I haven't seen any replies in the GDF from Limewire on the spec yet. You find that specs being released by Shareaza are laughable, but what about when Limewire proposes their GUESS proposal? Or "CHORD" proposal? Didn't "one development team" work on those? Sure, you released it before actually implamenting it, but still... the rest of the GDF just questioned about it, you were really the only development team. People don't say "Gnutella's GUESS proposal" they say "Limewire's GUESS proposal".

    The latest enhancement is GUESS, which was introduced before Shareaza's new searching methodology and seems to be Shareaza's inspiration.

    Can Limewire stop saying that? Which is totally and utterly untrue?!! Mike was working on G2 long before you sent him your spec on GUESS. He told you in a private e-mail that he was working on it before hand, and that he would probably release his with GUESS.

    And the specs released today are **VERY DIFFERENT** from your damn GUESS proposal.

    implemented over the last year or so by SEVERAL COOPERATING Gnutella vendors

    Oh, and what about your Remote Queueing feature? Shareaza founded that, and it's included in Limewire. Mike wants to cooperate, but your not giving him a chance.

    The Shareaza people continue to attempt to preempt Gnutella as THEIR protocol, when in fact they are pretty much branching off from the network.

    "Shareaza People"? There is only one developer for Shareaza, Mike. Shareaza supports G1 and G2, it supports "Gnutella".
  4. A revolution in P2P? I don't think so by Sanity · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "next revolution in P2P" (which it actually, IMO, is)
    Hardly. Directed searches for information (rather than the Gnutella/Gnutella2)-style broadcast search, has been around for a while now. For example, Freenet has employed a directed search from day one (albeit with a slightly different application), and FASD is a good example of how this can be generalized to fuzzy searching.

    Calling Gnutella2 the "next revolution in P2P" would be like calling the latest model in horse-pulled carriages the "next revolution in transportation" years after the advent of the motor car.