My instant response -- not having looked at your link, which I will --
is that what you propose is entirely legitimate in the educational
arena. What the students are doing with napster/gnutella/etc is
orthogonal to what the University is about.
And given the recently published paper on how well Gnutella's model of
P2P devours bandwidth, I think anybody who designs P2P applications
needs to keep in mind that while bandwidth can't be hoarded -- similar
to the manna in the desert it's gone whether consumed or not -- it's
only "infinite" over time. At any given point of time it's perfectly
possible to max out finite communications facilities.
Now I'll try to crawl back in my box quietly and go read the stuff at
your link so I can respond more knowledgeably.
Shelley
USC ISD
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