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Article:
  Distributed Systems Topologies: Part 2
Subject:   Here's a new one
Date:   2002-01-14 17:00:03
From:   pfh
I've recently been working on a P2P program that doesn't fit into any of the categories described in this article:


http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~pfh/circle/


I hope to have more details up on this site in a few weeks.


The basic idea is to divide a hashtable over all nodes in the network, and connect them up in such a way that the node with the information you want can be found easily. It is (theoretically) both very scalable and totally decentralized.