[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
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Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/10/27 10:34:42

Modified files:
        pointers       : article.rst 

Log message:
        more intro

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.16&tr2=1.17&r1=text&r2=text

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diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.16 
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.17
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.16       Mon Oct 27 09:55:16 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst    Mon Oct 27 10:34:42 2003
@@ -59,9 +59,27 @@
    [walfish03dns]_); example: hash-based (ref 
    ``hash`` URN namespace Internet-Draft; ref Freenet & others)
 
+   History of location-dependence: `TBL ref`_ (like in HT'03 paper)
 
+To accomplish this, links must be made using
+location-independent identifiers: The URI used to make
+the link must not specify the server that the page
+is to be downloaded from. The URI of a page must never change,
+even if it moves to a different server.
 
-.. History of location-dependence: `TBL ref`_ (like in HT'03 paper)
+In 1996, Tim Berners-Lee [name-myth]_ argued that
+using location-independent identifiers
+is not viable on a global scale:
+"[I]f you put information in a name, it decreases its longevity; 
+if you don't you can't dereference it to a resource."
+
+However, as we have observed in [fallenstein03storm]_, 
+this assumption has become obsolete with the advent of 
+efficient peer-to-peer lookup mechanisms such as 
+distributed hashtables (DHTs). Using DHTs
+to resolve location-independent identifiers on the Web
+has been proposed by Balakrishnan et.al. 
+[balakrishnan03semanticfree-andalso-walfish03dns]_.
 
 .. Proposal: A location-independent Web (closest thing is Freenet (ref))