Decentralize BitTorrent with Kenosis

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday January 11, 2005 @06:02AM from the do-you-peer-what-he-is-saying dept.

UnderScan writes "Eric Ries, writer/programmer/CTO, authored an article 'Kenosis and the World Free Web' at Freshmeat [Owned by Slashdot's Parent OSTG]. Kenosis is described as a 'fully-distributed peer-to-peer RPC system built on top of XMLRPC.' He has combined his Kenosis with BitTorrent & removed the need for a centralized tracker. He states: 'To demonstrate Kenosis's suitability for these new applications, we have used it to improve upon another peer-to-peer filesharing application that Just Works: BitTorrent. BitTorrent does one thing incredibly well. Using a centralized "tracker," BitTorrent manages efficient distribution of data that is in high demand. We have extended BitTorrent, using Kenosis, to eliminate this dependence on a centralized tracker.' See also the Kenosis README for details on using Kenosis-enabled BitTorrent."

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Re:Python by arudloff · 2005-01-11 06:23 · Score: 5, Insightful

It's fun to see how book-writing hackers act.

What, you mean, by using the right tool for the job instead of language snobbery? ;)
Zero Defect Software? by bperkins · 2005-01-11 06:24 · Score: 5, Insightful

I think I found a defect.

This thing doesn't make any fucking sense.

I was really excited by this slashdot story, because I think something like this could be very very useful. I have to say that I was disappointed a bit by the download.

No docs or pointers at the top of the tarball.

One of the READMEs on the site says try "test.py" for an example, which seems to just hang.

Elsewhere it says to fire up bittorrent
trackers and clients.

There clearly is a lot of work that has gone into this, and the idea sounds really promising, but it looks like it needs a better end-user documentation before it's ready for primetime.