I have been asked to supply a bit more information about the MMAPPs project that I mentioned earlier that we are involved in. MMAPPS stands for Market Management of Peer-to-Peer Services. I am under NDA for some of the details, but as the aims of the project can be seen on the original (but out of date) website I will try not to give any secrets away.
This is an EU part-funded project and HP were originally leading the project. After the merger with Compaq however, they withdrew and so we have been asked to join, along with the University of Lancaster. The new project leader is now BT Laboratories. Other participants include Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ; Research Centre of the Athens University of Economics and Business ; Darmstadt University of Technology and Telekom Austria .
Our job in Mysterian is to ensure that the project has a market and application focus and there are some interesting scenarios being considered. Our experience as Groove developers has given us some good experience with real-world usage.
One of the issues being analysed is the basic economic theory behind p2p. The guys from Athens have done some good work in boiling what is happening down to some equations that can be used to model how we might be able to balance out the use of network resources and content amongst the members of the network.
The assumption so far is that most of the development will be done with JXTA but this is still to be finally decided. There are some very neat features about JXTA, but there are some holes in there too for what we want to do. They guys who are deep into that part of the project are understandably a bit cautious as to whether they really want to get in and change core JXTA code. We shall see what the final decision is.
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