Just something to look at (and forget about it if you want to)

http://www.gnunet.de/comeunity.htm

let's work together, not against each others

Gnutella is one protocol. Any other P2P group can build its client on top of the existing protocols.

Well, the_GDF certainly is a non-commercial group. Anyone can post there, anyone who has something to say will be heard.

A certain disharmony will increase the speed of development. Too much of it will result in flame wars but even those can help the cause at times.

If that really is what you are looking for, Gnutella is certainly the way to go, - but for some companies it might be sensible to use a proprietary protocol.

>Gnutella is one protocol. Any other P2P group can build its client on top of the existing protocols.

I know. Which protocol is the best at the moment?

>Well, the_GDF certainly is a non-commercial group. Anyone can post there, anyone who has something to say will be heard.

I know, but the speed they develop is below everything i've seen before

>A certain disharmony will increase the speed of development.

Maybe, IMHO, disharmony results in endless discussions and, in this case, will cause different protocol variants, for example.

>Too much of it will result in flame wars but even those can help the cause at times.

I've never seen a flame war which helped to solve a development problem without dividing good people into small groups

>If that really is what you are looking for, Gnutella is certainly the way to go

I've not seen G2 working, if it's better, and i mean better than the ed2k/emule network, i'll do everything for it, otherwise, the old Gnutella1 is ready for the recycle bin.

That depends on who you ask. I like HTTP very much, but there are probably still some GOPHER fans out there.

Then you ain't seen nothin' yet. Proposals are created more quickly then most clients can implement them.

If somebody wants to create his own protocol, he has every right to do so.

Then you are not reading the_gdf.

I've not even seen the G2 specs. - The old Gnutella is better than ever.

I couldn't access the website (server not responding). So what's that site all about?