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[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst
From: |
Benja Fallenstein |
Subject: |
[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Nov 2003 09:56:44 -0500 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/gzz
Module name: manuscripts
Branch:
Changes by: Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden> 03/11/05 09:56:44
Modified files:
pointers : article.rst
Log message:
edit abstract, intro
CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.127&tr2=1.128&r1=text&r2=text
Patches:
Index: manuscripts/pointers/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.127
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.128
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.127 Wed Nov 5 07:35:04 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst Wed Nov 5 09:56:43 2003
@@ -37,14 +37,16 @@
as a P2P Web (except, naturally, for dynamically generated CGI pages),
and
web pages
-can reside on any host, even moved to computers
-that are off-line through physical media or archived,
+can reside on any host, even moved
+through physical media
+to computers
+that are off-line,
without having to change the reference.
Past versions of a web page
remain accessible as long as anybody keeps a copy.
We discuss our preliminary implementation,
and
-applications to
+applications of pointer records and the Storm data model to
P2P-based software distribution and upgrading,
@@ -80,13 +82,17 @@
no central point of failure for a Web page; it could be downloaded
from any host that has a copy. This would save bandwidth
and increase availability. However, if the Web worked like
-a filesharing system, Web pages could not be updated easily.
+a filesharing system, Web pages could not be updated.
Some filesharing systems offer permanent URIs for files
(e.g., [freenet-ieee-andalso-edonkey2kurl]_),
-based on the files' cryptographic hashes.
-A new version of a Web page would have a different hash,
-and thus a different URI. Others could be confused by
-finding two files with the same name but different content (XXX).
+based on the files' cryptographic hashes,
+which could be used for linking; but
+a new version of a Web page would have a different hash,
+and thus a different URI. [#update]_
+
+.. [#update] When updating a page, it would be clearly
+ infeasible to update all pages linking to it, and thus
+ all pages linking to *them*, and thus...
There are some (non-filesharing) P2P systems
that do offer an update mechanism. *CFS* [dabek01widearea]_
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, (continued)
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/04
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/04
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/04
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/04
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/04
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/04
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/04
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/05
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/05
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/05
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst,
Benja Fallenstein <=
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/05
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/05
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/05
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/05
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/05
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/06