Date: Oct. 11, 2001
Link: http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/08/02/openservices.html
Source Author or Organization: Gene Kan, OpenP2P.com

In this article Gnutella lead developer and Project JXTA group leader Gene Kan provides an introductory overview of the application of Open Source tenets to networked computing resources. The author sees the sharing of services, coined "Open Services" by Rael Dornfest, as a natural evolutionary path for distributed computing.

Kan uses case studies of SETI@Home, Napster, Gnutella and 802.11b networks to illustrate nascent Open Services architecture and principles. Cooperative Web searching is also considered, with a look at grub.org, Jibe and OpenCola Folders. The examples are followed with a discussion of how a decline in the price of computing power and bandwidth, increase in the availability of broadband, additional intelligence in firewalls and simplification of network services operation can translate to a ubiquitous, transparent sharing of networked services.