The prospect of righteous Napster users marching on Washington pales in comparison with the great leaders and speakers who have done the same. What if Mario Savio were addressing this demonstration instead of Shawn Fanning? What might he have said?

Lucas Gonze, formerly of WorldOS, sends in these meanderings on XMLP and SOAP. Lucas wonders why it shouldn't be built on SOAP, and why Microsoft supports SOAP, while Sun is against it.

DCI's Summit on Peer-to-Peer, subtitled "Expanding and Enabling Enterprise Computing," is a quiet affair concluding today in San Francisco. With roughly 50 attendees at the sessions, and about a dozen exhibitors, one gets the strong sense that it's too early -- perhaps *way* too early -- for a pure business P2P conference. The current economic climate certainly doesn't help matters, but for now P2P is the still the province of programmers, techies, and wild-eyed visionaries.

A few notes from the P2P Discussion with Ray Ozzie (Groove), Ian Clark (Freenet), Johnny Deep (AIMster), and Gene Kan (Gnutella). Clay Shirky, moderator. Wednesday, Feb. 14, O'Reilly P2P Conference.

Stanford University is installing new network equipment that will allow them to give "entertainment" use of the network a lower priority than other traffic. Currently, the Stanford community is consuming more bandwidth than is currently available.