| Goals and applications of P2P - Future goals |
Future goals of P2P
Anonymity, anti-censorship services, and decentralized information hosting. Increasingly deployed in totalitarian countries with excessive censorship of the internet.
Easier ways to find shared content and data, and a reduced risk of losing data (by HD crash, viruses, intrusions, etc.), through multiple copies and search indexes.
Open business-to-business and logistics networks, working through "supply" and "demand" messages of various types, offering fast exchange of computer resources and materials.
Transferring previously signed cybercash with true anonymity, using anonymous aliases for identifying transaction partners. Providers of anonymous cybercash might develop such systems to avoid liability for their customer's actions and to attract more people.
General access to storage space, CPU cycles, content, even rendering capabilities of video cards or other hardware. Distributed computing requires better virtual languages for executing untrusted code and offering access to resources securely.
Net infrastructure. Today, if 1000 people in Europe request the same web page in the US at the same time, it will travel across the Atlantic 1000 times. Transparent collaborative P2P routing might join technologies like multicasting, edge services, and transparent caching in the future to enhance effectivity of bandwidth usage on the net.