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Title: Excellent read, but..
Review: This book gives an excellent overview of peer-to-peer concepts, for a computer scientist I would consider it to be a must-read^.However, if you expect a book with lots of algorithmic details* of how scalable P2P services can be made, you may become disappointed. This book has the main emphasis on the conceptual side. I hereby challenge the authors to create a volume II - "Algorithmic Issues of P2P services"(^ together with Gamma's "Design Patterns", Cormen et al's "Introduction to Algorithms", Michalewicz et al's "Modern Heuristics", and a few more)(* e.g. for crypto, redundancy, data/user duplicate detection, and intelligent message caching/routing)
