The document describes GTPP (General Truncated Pyramid Peer-to-Peer Architecture), which is a hierarchical peer-to-peer network architecture built on top of structured DHT networks. GTPP aims to improve on flat "peer-to-peer" architectures by introducing multiple hierarchical tiers or layers. The key points are that GTPP can significantly reduce lookup latency compared to flat architectures, while only slightly increasing the number of hops. It also distributes traffic more clearly among peers in different tiers. Analysis shows 2-3 hierarchical tiers tend to be optimal for GTPP in terms of performance.