From: p2p-hackers@zgp.org (Sam Joseph)
Date: Mon Jul 15 19:09:02 2002
Subject: [p2p-hackers] Everything as a file ....

Glenn McGrath wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:21:09 +0900
> "Sam Joseph" <sam@neurogrid.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>> I think the NeuroGrid project is trying to do this:
>>
>> http://www.neurogrid.net
>>
>> but also Semplesh and Alpine have similar goals:
>>
>> http://cubicmetercrystal.com/alpine/overview.html
>> http://semplesh.com/
>>
>>
>
> I had looked at alpine, searching is part of their network protocol, i
> think there should be a clean seperation between (finding
> hosts/establishing the network) and finding content on the overall
> network.
>
> neurogrid looks to be in a similar situation to alpine.
>
> Im not sure about Semplesh.
>
Well semplesh runs on top of Chord, but NeuroGrid has a clean break
between searching and retrieving.  NeuroGrid can be run on top of Chord,
Freenet, whatever you like, because it works with meta-data - key
relations, so you could map your meta-data to chord addresses, http
urls, of Freenet keys.

And fortunately in the latest version of the software I've completely
separated out persistence and transport,  so you can add any database you
want, and indeed any transport layer (for meta-data queries) you want.
And on top of that the file retrieval can be handled by a completely
separate system, e.g. chord. (The original system was commited to http)

Well I say all these things, and it would probably me a little work to
smoothly get all the above functionally,  but NeuroGrid is commited to a
clean (as possible) separation of the different components.

CHEERS> SAM