We're still talking about peer-to-peer software, right?

Which leads to my next question: Where in the Amateur Packet Radio
service is there a need to transfer files in such a manner?
Peer-to-peer software was created to facilitate the transfer of FILES.
The current iterations of most popular BBS software, on the other hand,
can transfer such things as text bulletins, sale ads and so forth just
fine.

"...There is a lot of P2P software that is out there that is "Open
Source"
Software, meaning you can downloaded a uncompiled version and program
it the way you want. So you can create filters so certain files can't
go through the system like MPEGS, and AVI files (movie files) or MP3
(Music files) I would suggest if you intrested in it to get some books
on P2P..."

(I just -might- know a little more than you think I do about this
subject...but that's another discussion for another thread; another
time.)

Back to my original thought: How does the introduction of the Internet
into a ham-to-ham virtual circuit benefit -RADIO- in any way, shape or
form?

I take it that you have never run a packet BBS, correct?

Are you familiar with the file-splitting and transmission capabilities
of various existing user-mode software? Joe wants to share a new
program with Ralph, so he splits it and uploads it to the local packet
BBS, where Ralph downloads it. Acceptable thus far, right? It isn't
when the program in question is copyrighted; we'll forego the file size
limitations of the current RADIO-based network for purposes of this
discussion. Tracking these uploads are a headache that most SysOps will
gladly do without, especially if that content will land you in legal
hot water.

Further, a number of PBBS SysOps incorporated I-net-based forwarding of
traffic years back. A vast amount of non-ham-related 3rd-party traffic
began to filter into the packet network as a result; along the circuits
were several countries whose 3rd-party traffic laws were different than
those of the U.S. Many nights were spent writing filters to keep the
U.S.-based systems in compliance...and a system such as you propose
would be subject to the same set of dynamics, if it was indeed
multinational.

"....Like I stated above the only way you could log into this system
would
be over radio. The Super nodes which are on the internet are encrypted
and the internet side is mainly a "user Backbone system" so users can
connect via 2 meter---over the internet-----to another user on the
radio..."

What will all this effort net us? You're still limited by the
capabilites of the end-users. I don't care if your I-net circuit
consists of gigabit fiberlink; if Joe and Ralph are running 1200bps
modems at their end, you're going to realize data transfer rates of no
faster than 1200bps.

The current system, as is designed and implemented, works fine. Write a
host mode program with a nice, pretty front end and you might sell it
to people. Incorporating P2P technology into said program is - as I've
stated before - a solution to a problem which simply doesn't exist.