Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 17:17:07 -0700 (PDT) To: lwn@lwn.net 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