From P2P 2 P2P

Bernard Traversat's session focused on his Boeing and FCS JXTA-networking collaboration and ended with a discussion of simple JXTA programming constructs. (A good weblog on the topic of JXTA is Mohamed Abdelaziz's.)

I found his analysis of the history of the Internet insightful. Here are the three chapters according to Traversat, who is a director of advanced development at Sun Microsystems:

I. Early days of "Internet" BBN ARPANET, crude computer to computer networking.

II. 1980s-1990s Physical addressing, dns, network administration.

III. 2000s Modern p2p -- Self organizing, highly resilient, highly dynamicoverlay network and virtul addressing. Example technologies: Napster and JXTA.

I put this entry together while still sitting at the session using my Sidekick II.