Peer to Peer: Collaboration and Sharing over the Internet

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1.1	P2P interpreted as “person-to-person”. Person A in a room full of people wishes to communicate with B. A therefore locates and approaches B and establishes a direct connection.
1.2	Basic p2p connectivity implies each node can connect directly to any other. The number of possible connections increases rapidly with the number of nodes.
1.3	In practical networks, direct p2p connectivity is usually consigned to an abstract routing layer, so that the physical connections (solid arrows) can be made much simpler and tractable.
1.4	Comparing infrastructure, telephony and Internet, with respect to how representational naming is used to address a given end-point.
1.5	Simple comparison of a true peer network (as in early Internet) ...