# Client server

`kaal:entity:client-server`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `client-server`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 3 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3782198-023](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782198-023) [mechanism/asserted] -- Peer to peer networks scale more favorably than client server architectures because client server costs increase linearly per unit while peer to peer network costs can decrease with each added node, depending on topology.
  > Network effects proliferate in peer-to-peer networks because, unlike the traditional client- server architecture which is subject to the linearly increasing per-unit costs, the peer- to-peer network costs can decrease with each added node (depending on topology).
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Contemporary Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782198
- [3808852-007](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808852-007) [mechanism/argued] -- The transition from client-server computing to peer-to-peer networking was the most significant step in the evolution of decentralized technology, because removing centralized hosts lets nodes make disk storage, bandwidth, and processing power directly available to each other.
  > The transition from a traditional client-server computing architecture to a peer-to-peer networking architecture was the most significant step toward the evolution of decentralized technology.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization and Feedback Effects (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808852
- [3808859-010](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808859-010) [mechanism/argued] -- A peer-to-peer computing architecture is more efficient than client-server because client-server carries linearly increasing per-unit costs while peer-to-peer costs fall with each added node, which also leaves the traditional architecture more exposed to competition.
  > The traditional client-server architecture is subject to the linearly increasing per-unit costs whereas with a peer-to-peer network, cost decreasse with each added node.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859

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