Abstract

We consider the question of how to establish and enforce communal policies for peer-to-peer (P2P) communities. Generally, members of each P2P community must conform to an application specific communal policy if the community is to operate smoothly and securely. An open question, however, is how can such communal policies be established reliably and in a scalable manner ? While some communities can rely on voluntary compliance with their stated policies, voluntary compliance will not be sufficient for many future P2P applications. We illustrate

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