Similarly, Marc Hedlund and Nelson Minar from Popular Power made sense, because there was already a sense of some kind of connection between distributed computation and file sharing. But why did I invite Jeremie Miller of Jabber and Ray Ozzie of Groove , Ken Arnold from Sun's Jini project and Michael Tiemann of Red Hat, Marshall Rose, author of BXXP and IMXP , Rael Dornfest of Meerkat and RSS 1.0, Dave Stutz of Microsoft, Andy Hertzfeld of Eazel, Don Box, one of the authors of SOAP , and Steve Burbeck, one of the authors of UDDI . They're all working on parts of what I consider the next generation net story. This article reports on some of the ideas discussed at the summit. The concepts we use are, at bottom, maps of reality.
Bad maps lead to bad decisions.
If we believe it's about a wider class of decentralized networking applications, we'll be focused on understanding what those applications are good for and on advancing the state of the art. This map is also useful in understanding the thinking behind the O'Reilly's P2P directory . This broader map has two benefits. Second, the meme map helps the community influence outsiders. It can create excitement where there previously was indifference and turn negative impressions into positive ones.