# Network architecture

`kaal:entity:network-architecture`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `network-architecture`. 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

2 claims across 2 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [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
- [3808859-009](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808859-009) [mechanism/argued] -- Peer-to-peer architecture inverts the role of the audience: higher demand for a file produces more seeding nodes, which lowers the per-file delivery cost, whereas in client-server architecture demand consumes bandwidth proportionally.
  > By contrast, in the peer-to-peer network, higher demand for a file triggers higher levels of seeding nodes for the high demand file. The higher seeding level for the file lowers the delivery cost for each distributed file.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization – Why We Need Technology Infrastructure Upgrades (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808859

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