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[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst
From: |
Tuomas J. Lukka |
Subject: |
[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:57:55 -0500 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/gzz
Module name: manuscripts
Branch:
Changes by: Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden> 03/11/10 13:57:55
Modified files:
pointers : article.rst
Log message:
Reviewing with Benja
CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.226&tr2=1.227&r1=text&r2=text
Patches:
Index: manuscripts/pointers/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.226
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.227
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.226 Mon Nov 10 10:50:35 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst Mon Nov 10 13:57:54 2003
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
increased availability, and reduced server costs offered
by filesharing systems.
However, current update mechanisms for P2P networks do not have
-the simplicity of filesharing, as versioning
+the simplicity and other advantages of filesharing, as versioning
information has to be kept as special state in the network.
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
because
To allow versioning information to be stored like other data,
-we propose to use *pointer records*,
+we propose *pointer records*,
which can be shared and sought for
through the network as ordinary files.
Similar to
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
a simple API for hash-based storage systems, such as P2P networks.
Using pointer records layered on top of the Storm data model,
all versions of a document, stored on any host
-in any participating P2P network,
+on any participating P2P network,
can be found using the same URI.
.. Past versions of a web page
@@ -137,13 +137,13 @@
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]_.
+Cassini opponents and supporters.
In 2003,
only six years after the launch,
only 29
-of the 83 links provided by SpaceViews continue to work.
+of the 83 links provided by SpaceViews continue to work [#rtg-links]_.
Almost two thirds of the debate
-has fallen off the Web. "If I have seen further it is by standing
+have 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]_
@@ -166,6 +166,14 @@
We hold that a P2P Web should provide
the following features of filesharing systems to its users:
+Distributed archivability
+ The ability to
+ keep a version originally published by
+ someone else online, *accessible to others*,
+ under its original URI, for any period of time
+ (so that when the original publisher loses interest,
+ a page does not have to fall off the Web).
+
Off-line capability
The ability to
download versions and use them off-line without
@@ -184,14 +192,6 @@
(e.g. anonymity vs. efficiency);
c) because people can use their favorite network
while agreeing on a common data model (network effect).
-
-Distributed archivability
- The ability to
- keep a version originally published by
- someone else online, *accessible to others*,
- under its original URI, for any period of time
- (so that when the original publisher loses interest,
- a page does not have to fall off the Web).
In a P2P Web, pages could be
linked using permanent URIs
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, (continued)
- [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, 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
- [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, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst,
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- [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, 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, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10