Commons Based P2P Network
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About the Concept of a Commons Based P2P Network
This article introduces and explains some of the reasons why all P2P networks are implicitly Commons Based. The various forms that a Commons can take confuses the underlying truth that a commons arises and is initially constituted from an agreement between peers. The peer agreement itself, sometimes created explicitly with P2P Protocol, is a commons in and of itself. The first agreement for a peer network, in many cases, is to define the peer relationship that defines the P2P Network. With this understanding in place it is possible to build in additional complexity to peer relationships, peer network agreements and operations, as well as internetwork relationships like federations. The chain of increasing complexity of relationships between peers bears fruit as the agreements define relations inside a network and simultaneously create an,"outside," the view of a network as a group of individuals operating with an agreement. While Peers use P2P Protocol to create agreements peers gather needs and wants from within the network and form additional agreements for the acquisition, management, and upkeep of one or more Common Resources. The agreements to acquire and manage common resources take on increasing complexity as certain resources, because of their nature or scale, require coordinated, collaborative enterprise within the network and between peers. In many cases a view of the "outside" f a network only yields information about a the quality or nature of a common resource. Overlooking the agreements that peers have for managing the resource doesn't mean they don't exist. P2P Network Models are a constituted by an ordered collection of perspectives pay attention to individual subjective agreements and motivations, individual behaviors that comprise the substance of the fulfillment of agreements, the use of P2P Protocol as a practice and the agreements themselves as a cultural practice, and the commons resources of the network including sometimes externalized systems like breathable air and the maintenance of those same services.
About the Scope of this Article
This article hazards a template that exhibits the increasing complexity of relationships, behavior, motivations, and resources within various groupings that fills out one potential for a replicable, inherently distributed model for wide scale integrated peer-to-peer dynamics across social and economic system. While this is just a template, this template will be expanded, iteratively, so as to support the analysis needed to allow individuals the lattitude to compare and contrast various implementations of P2P dynamics within systems. The ability to notice a potential failure before it happens and to confirm the anticipatory capability is important for proving replicability as well as building stronger foundations and support for a methodical approach to future implementations of P2P alternatives.
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Commons Based P2P Networks and the P2P Collaboration Stack
The P2P Collaboration Stack is a collection of articles that are designed to facilitate the rapid prototyping of specialized, niche Commons Based P2P Networks. As such, the P2P Collaboration Stack, and the P2P Collaboration Systems that support P2P Networks, are designed to facilitate an iterative process and analysis toolset as well as an aid to those engaged in Action Research. While the Commons Based P2P Network article is meant to provide keys to deeper analysis of niche opportunities for new and linked P2P Networks it also serves as a keystone of sorts that provides a meta-guide to the inter-relations between various P2P Network Models.
Supporting Articles on the P2P Foundation Wiki
Several articles support the actively nurtured semi-formal conclusions in this article. It would be a logical first step to look at these articles and amend them if you wish to support changes within this article. Additional articles within the P2P Network Models are listed at the end of this page.
- Complex Adaptive Systems
- P2P as a Complex Adaptive System
- P2P Relational System
- P2P Companion Concepts
- P2P Collaboration Stack
"Pure" P2P Network Models
The functions and dynamics that are outlined in the article below inform some of the boundaries and relationships that are documented in the "pure" P2P Network Models. These "pure" models are not meant to serve as a perfect business model, but are instead considered "pure" because they, as models, deal only with the types of dynamics and relationships that are outlined in this article. They are, in essence, and empty model that is also "content-free." A content free model that, with some adaptation, could be fashioned for user or implementation within a number of different types of areas including manufacturing, farming, or social services. As a "content-free" model there may be some aspects that must be customized or improvised in order to match the model with a particular area like manufacturing, but the model itself outlines relationships and offers a place to start with doing so.
Introduction to Commons Based P2P Networks
All P2P Networks are Commons Based P2P Networks in at least the minimalistic sense that a an individual's voluntary behavior can be perceived, by an "outside viewer", as similar. If the peers within this group, with boundaries defined from the outside, if they proceed, as individuals, to develop an interior sense of their commonality, they can actively engage something like P2P Protocol in order to craft a mutual understandin amongst the group. Doing so defines the network from the inside. This second form of agreement is referred to as the first level of complexity for a P2P Network because this is the first case of peers within the network self-identifying as members of the network. This agreement also forms the first "commons" as a "network-defined" commons. From this point agreements between peers can become increasingly complex and involve the acquisition and management of common resources as well as more sophisticated processes for making and fulfilling agreements.
Network Boundaries and Definitional Frameworks within a Multi-Network Environment
The levels of complexity for each level of complexity are informed by a number of boundary conditions and definitions. Boundary conditions are where a particular network has a significant differential with agreements with activities within another network. The significance of the differential will have something to do with definitions and by what framework the networks are themselves organized. In this article several of these frameworks and statistically significant differentials will be examined.
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