[Foundation-l] Alternative approach for better video support

[GerardM]

Hoi,
Consider many people who all have copies of Commons files in a P2P cache.
Making them available to whoever wants them. This connected to a few
backbone servers who have ALL Commons files. Consider that there is some
mechanism that ensures that there are at least a given minimum number of
copies of every file in the "wild" and that this process is optimised to
have the images near to where they are requested most often.. When a picture
is added to the P2P it goes to the central repository and it is checked and
validated like we do at the moment for copyright etc ...

This kind of setup is similar to what the University of Amsterdam wants to
do for Wikipedia content.. Maybe they could consider something along these
lines to get their feet wet..

Thanks,
     GerardM

On 7/25/07, Daniel Arnold <arnomane at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 25 July 2007 06:26:53 THURNER rupert wrote:
> > > [...] So please let us brainstorm how to turn this
> > > into a good opportunity for all of us without sacrificing parts of our
> > > goals and independence. [...]
> >
> > we currently try to help setting up a research project co financed by
> the
> > european union to exactly help improving this situation with bringing
> p2p
> > technology and wiki technology closer.
>
> p2p definitely was a big help in the past when we distributed the
> Wikipedia
> DVD images. So p2p has proven to be useful on distributing large files
> that
> don't change frequently.
>
> However p2p between clients somehow connected with the wiki itself has the
> disadvantage that you require a special software and this again is
> technically problematic like requiring Java or Flash plugins.
>
> Distributing files among mirror servers is usually a network of less than
> 100
> participants. There is usually a defined list of mirrors with known
> average
> mirror update delay. Large downloadservers very often use Rsync in order
> to
> mirror whole directory trees of other servers. So Rsync is an introduced
> working technology with a quite intelligent algorithm.
>
> In my approach the user would traditionally get the file via HTTP from the
> mirror (he even wouldnt realize it if he doesn't look closely on the URL
> of
> this file). So there wouldn't be any change on the client side, which is a
> big advantage.
>
> But maybe I understand you wrong. What exactly do you mean with bringing
> p2p
> and wikis closer together?
>
> Arnomane
>
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