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[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst
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Tuomas J. Lukka |
Subject: |
[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Nov 2003 03:50:54 -0500 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/gzz
Module name: manuscripts
Branch:
Changes by: Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden> 03/11/10 03:50:54
Modified files:
pointers : article.rst
Log message:
Reorg; intro more logical.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.183&tr2=1.184&r1=text&r2=text
Patches:
Index: manuscripts/pointers/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.183
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.184
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.183 Mon Nov 10 03:44:33 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst Mon Nov 10 03:50:54 2003
@@ -111,23 +111,44 @@
from any host with a copy. This would save bandwidth
and increase availability; pages would stay online as long as
any user keeps a copy of them on their local harddisk.
-Pages can be
-linked using permanent URIs
-based on the files' cryptographic
-hashes, as in
-[freenet-ieee-andalso-edonkey2kurl]_.
-However, in such a scheme,
-web pages cannot be updated:
-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...
.. XXX Mention "Name-based not possible as a suitable system
for names doesn't exist?"
+Such permanence is an important concern, as seen by the following example.
+In 1997, NASA launched the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft
+on a mission to Saturn. Before the launch, the mission
+was widely criticized as a potential threat
+to billions of human lives,
+for its use of
+plutonium
+to generate electricity.
+To facilitate the debate,
+SpaceViews, a publication of the National Space Society,
+published a list of links to web pages of both
+Cassini opponents and supporters [#rtg-links]_.
+In the year 2003,
+only six years after the launch,
+only 29
+of the 83 links provided by SpaceViews continue to work.
+Almost two thirds of the debate
+has fallen off the Web. "If I have seen further it is by standing
+on the shoulders of giants;" but how can we do that today,
+if the shoulders keep rotting away?
+The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine [waybackmachine]_
+alleviates these concerns somewhat, but it introduces
+a single point of failure-- and censorship-- for the *entire* Web!
+
+.. (cut) radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), using
+
+.. Activists claim that
+ the launch of such devices poses a threat to
+ billions of human lives.
+
+.. [#rtg-links] ``http://www.seds.org/spaceviews/cassini/ rtgpages.html``.
+ All links dereferenced on October 27th, 2003.
+
+
We hold that to succeed, a P2P Web would need to provide
the following features of filesharing systems for its users:
@@ -168,44 +189,25 @@
and stops publishing a page, it disappears, even if
someone else has kept a copy.
-There are some non-filesharing P2P systems
-that do offer an update mechanism. However, none of these
-provides all the above benefits of a filesharing system:
-
-...
-
-Permanence is an important concern, as seen by the following example.
-In 1997, NASA launched the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft
-on a mission to Saturn. Before the launch, the mission
-was widely criticized as a potential threat
-to billions of human lives,
-for its use of
-plutonium
-to generate electricity.
-To facilitate the debate,
-SpaceViews, a publication of the National Space Society,
-published a list of links to web pages of both
-Cassini opponents and supporters [#rtg-links]_.
-In the year 2003,
-only six years after the launch,
-only 29
-of the 83 links provided by SpaceViews continue to work.
-Almost two thirds of the debate
-has fallen off the Web. "If I have seen further it is by standing
-on the shoulders of giants;" but how can we do that today,
-if the shoulders keep rotting away?
-The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine [waybackmachine]_
-alleviates these concerns somewhat, but it introduces
-a single point of failure-- and censorship-- for the *entire* Web!
+In a P2P Web, pages could be
+linked using permanent URIs
+based on the files' cryptographic
+hashes, as in
+[freenet-ieee-andalso-edonkey2kurl]_.
+However, in such a scheme,
+web pages cannot be updated:
+a new version of a web page would have a different hash,
+and thus a different URI. [#update]_
-.. (cut) radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), using
+.. [#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...
-.. Activists claim that
- the launch of such devices poses a threat to
- billions of human lives.
+.. There are some non-filesharing P2P systems
+ that do offer an update mechanism. However, none of these
+ provides all the above benefits of a filesharing system:
-.. [#rtg-links] ``http://www.seds.org/spaceviews/cassini/ rtgpages.html``.
- All links dereferenced on October 27th, 2003.
+...
.. <<<We don't propose that every byte of information ever published
on the Web has to be kept around forever. However,
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, (continued)
- [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, 2003/11/08
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/09
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/09
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/09
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst,
Tuomas J. Lukka <=
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10