.:: a few thoughts on the subject by rob wright ::.

Cerf on P2P

From Cerf Says Symmetry is Beautiful,

Persevering, Cerf said, "the concept of P2P was part of the original design of the protocol. It was not part of the protocol that preceded it, NCP, which was built on a client server architecture."

The P2P principal is key to the Internet's success. "P2P was built in on purpose. Although you need flow control to connect a handheld device on a GPRS connection to a supercomputer running on gigabit lines, they connect to each other."