Date: Nov. 3, 2000
Link: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/09/22/p2psummit.html?page=1
Source Author or Organization: Andy Oram, O'Reilly P2P DevCenter

This article offers a basic introduction to and overview of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking, "the end of the read-only Web."

The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference is covered (audio from the Summit in MP3 and RealAudio format is available at http://oreilly.wirelessdevnet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/09/22/rt.html), and the role of metadata and XML, the barriers to P2P, its limitations and potential regulation issues are also explored.