Companies Form P2P Working Group Emphasis on Industry Standards Byron Alley
A new working group has been created to coordinate the development of Peer-to-Peer industry standards. The initiative is intended to help create standards that are open and industry-wide rather than closed and proprietary. The group will work on protocols, security, and other major P2P issues.
As computers become ubiquitous, ideas for implementation and use of peer-to-peer computing are developing rapidly and gaining prominence. But issues of inter-operability, security, performance, management, privacy and many more may stifle the growth of innovation. Many of these issues relate to infrastructure, where no value will be gained from proprietary solutions. Standards will promote ubiquity that is essential for peer-to-peer computing success. The working group will determine areas for standardization, rapidly develop specifications, and promote adoption of these specifications as standards throughout the computer industry.
