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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 17:17:07 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: O'Reilly's P2P Summit, Conference, Book

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 27, 2000 
CONTACT: Sara Winge, 707/829-0515 x285, sara@oreilly.com
http://www.oreilly.com

O'REILLY ANNOUNCES PEER-TO-PEER INITIATIVES Summit, Conference, and
Book Shine the Spotlight on Emerging Computing Paradigm

SEBASTOPOL, CA--The current buzz around peer-to-peer (P2P) services
like Napster is dangerously distorted, says Tim O'Reilly, CEO of
technical information firm O'Reilly & Associates. According to
O'Reilly, "The music industry is positioning peer-to-peer as if it were
an attack on copyright, when in fact, it's a technical approach that is
fundamental to the architecture of the internet, and a key component of
many innovative new applications."

O'Reilly hosted a group of 20 leaders of the emerging P2P industry in
an examination of the technology's promise and limitations at a
day-long Peer-to-Peer Summit in San Francisco on September 19.
Participants (listed below) agreed that peer-to-peer is much more than
file sharing--it's a range of technologies that unlock the latent power
of the network and make more effective use of Internet resouces. Summit
participants are building this new network-powered paradigm through
distributed computing (i.e. SETI@Home, Popular Power), Web services
(Eazel, SOAP, and Microsoft .NET), content syndication (Meerkat),
pervasive computing via internet enabled devices (Sun, Intel, Red Hat),
and instant messaging (Jabber).

O'Reilly is following the Summit with the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer
Conference, February 14-16 at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco
(http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p), and "Peer-to-Peer: The Disruptive
Potential of Collaborative Networking," a book of essays by
peer-to-peer leaders on projects including Gnutella, InfraSearch,
Jabber, Freenet, Popular Power, MojoNation, Publius, FreeHaven, Red
Rover, and SETI@Home.

"Peer-to-Peer" editor Andy Oram reports on the Summit in "Peer-to-Peer
Makes the Internet Interesting Again" on the O'Reilly Network
(http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/09/22/p2psummit.html).
Summit participant and Byte.com columnist Jon Udell offers his
perspective in "Peering: Remaking The P2P Meme: It's Not Just About
Napster And Piracy" (http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20000922S0001).

PEER-TO-PEER SUMMIT PARTICIPANTS

Steve Burbeck 
Senior Technical Staff Member
IBM

Rael Dornfest 
Senior Developer 
O'Reilly Network

Dale Dougherty 
Publisher 
O'Reilly Network

Dan Gillmor 
Columnist 
San Jose Mercury News

Andy Hertzfeld 
Software Wizard, Co-Founder 
Eazel

Gene Kan 
Founder 
GoneSilent.com

Bob Knighten 
Peer-to-Peer Evangelist 
Intel Corporation

Kevin Lenzo 
Carnegie Mellon University

Jeremie Miller 
Founder 
Jabber

Scott Miller 
Developer/Security Analyst 
Freenet

Nelson Minar 
CTO 
Popular Power

Darren New 
Senior Member Technical Staff
Invisible Worlds

Tim O'Reilly 
CEO 
O'Reilly & Associates

Andy Oram 
Editor 
O'Reilly & Associates

Ray Ozzie 
CEO 
Groove Networks

Clay Shirky 
Partner 
acceleratorgroup

David Stutz 
Software Architect 
Microsoft

Michael Tiemann 
CTO 
Red Hat

Bernard Traversat 
Senior Staff, Advanced Research & Development, Aspen Lab
Sun Microsystems

Jon Udell 
Journalist 
byte.com