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            O P E N    C O N T E N T    N E T W O R K

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                 Issue 1    January 27 , 2003

                   http://open-content.net

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IN THIS ISSUE
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OCN UPDATE
[1]  Open Content Network Goes Live

OCN SITES
[1]  Etree Archives Join OCN

TECHNOLOGY UPDATE
[1]  Content Mirror Advertisement Specification Added (Early Draft)
[2]  Partial File Sharing Protocol Added
[3]  Tornado Cache - OCN Edition Released


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OCN UPDATE
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[1]  Open Content Network Goes Live

After many months of preparation, the Open Content Network went live
in January 2003.  Visit http://open-content.net/ for more information
and distribute this newsletter to anyone hosting free large, popular 
files.

The Open Content Network is a collaborative effort to help deliver 
large, freely-downloadable content using peer-to-peer technology. 
The network is essentially a huge "virtual web server" that links 
together thousands of computers for the purpose of helping out 
over-burdoned web sites.

Using various web browser plug-ins, users can download open source 
and public domain software, movies, and music at incredibly fast 
speeds from this global, distributed network.  Some users have
reported downloads in excess of 1 MB/s!

Using a new Peer-to-Peer technology, called the "Content-Addressable 
Web", indviduals will be able to help distribute free content by 
donating their spare bandwidth and disk space to the network. 


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OCN SITES
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[1]  Etree Archives Join OCN

The Etree archives of high-quality, live concert recordings is now
being distributed with the aid of the Open Content Network.  The 
archives can be found at http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php

2,156 shows from 128 artists is currently available via the Etree
archives with many of the tracks being over 100 MB in size.  By
joining the OCN, the Etree users can now share their bandwidth 
with each other and recieve faster downloads.

For more information on publishing web sites via the OCN, see:
http://open-content.net/publish.html


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TECHNOLOGY UPDATE
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[1]  Content Mirror Advertisement Specification Added (Early Draft)

An early draft of the XML-RPC API for advertising mirrors of
content in the OCN has been added at http://open-content.net/specs/

For questions/comments about this draft, please join the ocn-dev
mailing list at: http://open-content.net/mailman/listinfo/ocn-dev/

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[2]  Partial File Sharing Protocol Added

The Partial File Sharing Protocol from Gnutella has been adopted
by the Open Content Network.  This protocol allows OCN clients to
implement "swarm download" features for fast, efficient download
of very large files.

Information on this protocol is available at:
http://open-content.net/specs/

For questions/comments about this protocol, please join the ocn-dev
mailing list at: http://open-content.net/mailman/listinfo/ocn-dev/

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[3]  Tornado Cache - OCN Edition Released

Onion Networks has released its Tornado Cache Plug-in for the 
Open Content Network and is making it freely available for web
sites delivering freely-distributable content via the OCN.

More information on this application can be found at:
http://onionnetworks.com/ocn/