Re: [Bug-gnupedia] A Voice From the Past

[Mike Warren]

John Goodwin <address@hidden> writes:

> 1. Start a "GnURL" project for persistent URLs (make gnurl.gnu.org a
> PURL name resolver). GnURLs will work with both HTML and XML
> existing software today. There's your "quick start" factor.

Much of your proposal seems to mirror the goals of the Freenet
(http://freenet.sourceforge.net) project; it might be sufficient to
decide on some hierarchy of keys in the Freenet system for use by the
GNU-free-library project (i.e. /gnu/freelibrary/**keys**).

If some aspects of Freenet are insufficient (I haven't kept track of
the project for a while) then it might make more sense to fix these,
rather than invent the wheel all over again.

The biggest problem I see with Freenet *re* your idea is that
information is ``expired'' out of Freenet if it isn't accessed in a
certain amount of time. A cheap, hackish way around it would obviously
be to have some server merely access all the GNU-free-library stuff at
the required interval, but...

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