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P6P is a new, incrementally deployable networking infrastructure that resolves the growing tensions between the Internet routing infrastructure and the end sites of the Internet. P6P decouples the two through a P2P overlay network formed by the edge routers. P6P brings the benefits of IPv6 directly to end hosts, solving the major headache of IPv6 deployment as well as those of ISP switching, multihoming, and dynamic addressing.
P6P advocates Internet innovations at the overlay formed by the edge routers, rather than at the core Internet. P2P protocols can be incorporated into P6P to provide advanced features such as multicast. This opens the door for P2P research to play a central role in shaping the future of the Internet. The paper describes the P6P design and architecture, addresses the security and performance concerns, and shows simulation results that support its feasibility.
This work was funded in part by DARPA/AFRL-IFGA grant F30602-99-1-0532, and by the AFRL/Cornell Information Assurance Institute.
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Zhou, L., van Renesse, R. (2005). P6P: A Peer-to-Peer Approach to Internet Infrastructure. In: Voelker, G.M., Shenker, S. (eds) Peer-to-Peer Systems III. IPTPS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3279. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30183-7_8
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