From: p2p-hackers@zgp.org (Glenn McGrath)
Replying To: Brad Neuberg <p2p-hackers@zgp.org>
Date: Mon Jul 15 22:06:02 2002
Subject: [p2p-hackers] Everything as a page

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 20:12:40 -0700
"Brad Neuberg" <bradneuberg@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The alternative to the Unix file philosophy is the web philosophy: 
> everything as a URI.  You could call this the REST philosophy.  When you
> 
> are interacting with a URI, you can assume that most of the HTTP 
> semantics work with it: GET, POST, PUT (maybe), etc.  This URI could in 
> fact be a file, an operating system process, a web page, an object, a 
> distributed object, etc.
> 

Yes, URI fits better, it ties a file handle to specific machine(s). 

If URI's are what most p2p systems have in common,  than why not have a URI
(or transport) layer that tries to connecting URI's in a secure,
anonymous, accountable way using some intellegent routing, leaving the
processing of the content sent/received upto the system that uses such a
library.  



Glenn