P2P and the promise of Internet equality

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 39-42

  Agre, Philip E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE; PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) NETWORKS; SERVICE LAYERS;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA STRUCTURES; DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; LEARNING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SERVERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 0038654817     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/606272.606298     Document Type: Review

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