This Technical Report:
-classifies problems of P2P networking;
-defines taxonomy and concept of managed P2P;
-specifies requirements to support managed P2P;
-specifies framework for managed P2P;
-specifies information flows to support various features of managed P2P.
This Technical Report does not define new P2P protocol or P2P-based applications. This Technical Report does not define manageability features for interoperation with conventional P2P-based applications. The goal of this Technical Report is to define a framework to provide manageability to the conventional P2P-based application.