Re: [Gzz-commits] gzz/Documentation/misc/hemppah-progradu existin...

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:47:31AM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> Quoting Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>:
> 
> > 
> > Hi Hermanni,
> > 
> > Hermanni Hyytiälä wrote:
> > 
> > >+6. Types of p2p systems
> > > 
> > >- 
> > >+6.1. E-Commerce systems
> > >+-eBay
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> > Where did you get ebay being a p2p system from? Did I miss some news? ;-)
> > 
> > - Benja
> 
> I have to admit that I wasn't sure about this all :). However, I decided to 
> take
> it "under investigation", because there was a paper (slideshow) by Aberer and
> Hauswirth ("Peer-to-Peer information systems: concepts and models,
> state-of-the-art, and future systems") where they mentioned that eBay is one
> kind of model of p2p system (a.k.a. eCommerce system).

Hmm? More likely the business model as a potential application,
than the eBay implementation of it.

        Tuomas