GNTP

The Genealogy Network Transfer Protocol (GNTP) is an unfinished protocol for a  network that was not completed because of resource constraints. The idea was to allow genealogists to share files in much the same way that music and other files are distributed on other s.

Literature
C. C. Albrecht, D. Dean, R. B. Jackson, S. W. Liddle, and R. D. Meservy. A Peer-To-Peer Network Protocol for Genealogical Data. In Proceedings of the First Family History Technology Workshop, pages 19–23, Provo, Utah, April 2001.