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[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst
From: |
Benja Fallenstein |
Subject: |
[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst |
Date: |
Thu, 06 Nov 2003 02:54:58 -0500 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/gzz
Module name: manuscripts
Branch:
Changes by: Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden> 03/11/06 02:54:57
Modified files:
pointers : article.rst
Log message:
edit
CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.143&tr2=1.144&r1=text&r2=text
Patches:
Index: manuscripts/pointers/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.143
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.144
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.143 Thu Nov 6 02:41:46 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst Thu Nov 6 02:54:57 2003
@@ -453,7 +453,8 @@
with different properties (such as speed and anonymity),
the caches of other machines on the LAN,
and the complete set of files ever downloaded to the local harddisk.
-This model is analogous to the HTTP protocol: a common language
+The Storm API makes such clients simple to implement.
+The model is analogous to the HTTP protocol: a common language
spoken by all clients and servers.
In an ad-hoc wireless local network between mobile devices,
@@ -475,7 +476,7 @@
To ensure archival, libraries or other institutions
could easily make a P2P network of servers
ensuring that all relevant blocks
-would be archived. Unlike with the wayback machine,
+would be archived. Unlike with the Wayback Machine,
there would be no difficulty in setting up or accessing
the system because it could use the exact same technologies
as the rest of the file-shared web, simply configured slightly
@@ -491,14 +492,13 @@
downloaded automatically, if publicly available.
For versioned media files, the player could
notify the user of updates or download them automatically;
-for example, if spelling and translation errors
+for example, after spelling and translation errors
in a movie's subtitles have been corrected.
-**Software updates.**
-As an example of a different application,
-pointer records could be used to implement
-a p2p version of software upgrades
-such as Debian's ``apt`` or Windows update,
+**Software updates:**
+Pointer records could be used to implement
+a P2P version of software upgrades
+such as Windows Update and Debian's ``apt``,
allowing for large bandwidth savings because
updates could be downloaded from the closest
host that has a copy.
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@
created by pointer records.
Through a simple reverse index, it was also easy to implement
a "backlinks" functionality, which tells the user which
-pages link *to* a given web page.
+pages link *to* the current web page.
When run on the local machine,
documents owned by the machine's owner can also be
edited through simple WebDAV clients.
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@
the network to store any versioning-related information,
can easily be used by several different types
of P2P networks, and allows versions of documents
-to be resolved for as long as any host on the network
+to be found as long as any host on the network
keeps a copy.
We have also presented the Storm data model, a simple
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@
random data), a publisher could make correct past versions
hard to access. A time-stamping mechanism may help here.
-We have proposed to use pointer records as the versioning
+In this paper, we have proposed to use pointer records as the versioning
mechanism for a location-independent Web.
We hope that by making links more permanent, this can make
the Web a more solid foundation for standing
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, (continued)
- [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
- [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 <=
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 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, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/06