2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/31873In the hope of stimulating discussion, we present a heuristic decision tree that designers can use to judge the likely suitability of a P2P architecture for their applications. It is based on the characteristics of a wide range of P2P systems from the literature, both proposed and deployed.6 pages, 1 figureNetworking and Internet ArchitectureHardware ArchitectureC.2.4text