Re: European Peer-to-Peer Conference

[Dan Gunter <dkgunter@lbl.gov>]

> Peter Lewis wrote:
> 
> The most eminent specialists will supply detailed answers to these
> questions at the European Peer-to-Peer Conference, to take place on
> December 4 to 7, 2001 in Paris.
> A call for papers is online:
> http://www.upperside.fr/ptop2001/ptop2001intro2.htm
> 

Just to clarify a bit, here is the introductory page for this
conference:

>      The next killer application for the Internet
>       
>       Is peer-to-peer going to revolutionize the Internet by prompting the creation 
>       of new applications and inventing a new way to exchange information?
>       
>       Promoters of this new architecture advocate leaving behind the client/server 
>       model and instead heading towards a network where everything is shared and 
>       each connected workstation can be both a resource and an end-user. As its 
>       name suggests, peer-to-peer means equally sharing resources and computer 
>       services by direct exchange.
>       
>       Of course, this model is already known by many companies under the name 
>       collaborative work. But the real novelty resides in the scope of the network 
>       used today: the Internet. Here we're talking not thousands but millions 
>       of PCs. And with them, a phenomenal quantity of untapped resources. The 
>       stakes are enormous for companies who will thus be able to work in a collaborative 
>       manner. Yet certain security problems still remain to be solved.
>       
>       Do any standards exist?
>       
>       Have any economic models been elaborated based on peer-to-peer architecture?
>       
>       What solutions are being proposed today and by whom?
>       
>       What are some of the first implementations?
>       
>       The most eminent specialists will supply detailed answers to these questions 
>       at the European Peer-to-Peer Conference, 
>       to take place on December 4 to 7, 2001 in Paris.
>       
>       Upper Side is specialized in organizing probing and innovative conferences 
>       tracking the evolution of the Internet and the IP protocol (IPoverDWDM, 
>       IPCN, IP Policing). Besides being a valuable source of information, each 
>       conference is an occasion for researchers and manufacturers to meet and 
>       exchange ideas.
>       
>       CALL FOR PROPOSALS
>       
>       The following list of topics is not exhaustive and authors may propose other 
>       subjects in keeping within the thematic framework. 
>       
>       -  Basic peer-to-peer infrastructure
>       -  Architectures
>       -  Distributed Content management
>       -  File-Sharing
>       -  Collaboration
>       -  Standards
>       -  Security issues
>       -  Peer-to-peer in the company
>       -  Services (SOAP, XML)
>       -  Resources (UDDI, WSDL)
>       -  Application platforms 
>       -  The impact of peer-to-peer applications costs
>       -  Peer-to-peer business models
>       -  Next generation peer-to-peer applications
>       -  Metadata 
>       -  Performance
>       -  Interoperability through gateways
>       
>       Abstracts must not exceed one page. 
>       
>       They may be submitted in PDF, HTML or Word format by email at: info@upperside.fr 
>       or remi.scavenius@wanadoo.fr
>       
>       DEAD LINE 
>       
>       Dead line for turning in abstracts: April 30, 2001 
>        
>       Feedback from committee members: May 15, 2001 
>        
>       Scientific Committee
>       A scientific committee made up of prominent personalities 
>         in the IP and Fibre real will examine and choose the speakers from the 
>         submittted abstracts in accordance with their technological relevance.
>         

- Dan