Editing Gnutella2 (section)

=== Protocol ===

Gnutella's packet format has been criticized because it was not originally designed with [[extensibility]] in mind, and has had many additions over the years, leaving the packet structure cluttered and inefficient.<ref name="Developer discussion of gnutella and Gnutella2 packet formats">{{cite web| url=https://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_gdf/message/16290| title=Developer discussion of Gnutella and Gnutella2 packet formats| publisher=The Gnutella Developer Forum| access-date=2006-05-15| archive-date=2023-01-17| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117213155/https://www.yahoo.com/| url-status=dead}}</ref> Gnutella2 learned from this, and aside from having many of the added features of gnutella standard in Gnutella2, designed in future extensibility from the start.