https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/bottom-up-vs-top-down-modalities-of-peer-governance/2008/02/17 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:02:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/bottom-up-vs-top-down-modalities-of-peer-governance/2008/02/17/comment-page-1#comment-190549 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:02:04 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/bottom-up-vs-top-down-modalities-of-peer-governance/2008/02/17#comment-190549 Language like “bottom-up” and “top-down” doesn’t even apply in a peer-to-peer environment. Bottoms and tops only exist in a hierarchy. Simply inverting or mixing the direction of flows in a hierarchy is not what peer-to-peer is. Peer-to-peer is a completely different network structure.

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