[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
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Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/11/01 15:22:52

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        pointers       : article.rst 

Log message:
        even more abstract (will cut later, of course)

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.50&tr2=1.51&r1=text&r2=text

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diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.50 
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--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.50       Sat Nov  1 14:23:39 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst    Sat Nov  1 15:22:52 2003
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@
 and increase availability. However, if the Web worked like
 a file-sharing system, Web pages could never be updated.
 
+In this paper, we present a versioning system usable
+for a P2P Web as well as for updateable media files
+in a file-sharing application (e.g. corrected versions
+of Project Gutenberg books) and P2P-based software distribution
+(akin to Debian's ``apt-get`` system).
+
 Most current P2P systems have no facility 
 for updating documents. The systems that do 
 (such as Freenet or OceanStore) require state in the network 
@@ -64,6 +70,10 @@
 To find the newest version, we look for the most recent timestamp.
 This way, versions of a document 
 stay available as long as anybody keeps a copy.
+
+We also present an elegant and efficient system that
+keeps a full version history while storing only the
+differences between versions.
 
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