[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Branch:         
Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/11/01 15:39:07

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        pointers       : article.rst 

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        abstract shorter

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.52&tr2=1.53&r1=text&r2=text

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diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.52 
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.53
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.52       Sat Nov  1 15:35:00 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst    Sat Nov  1 15:39:07 2003
@@ -53,15 +53,14 @@
 
 Most current P2P systems have no facility 
 for updating documents. The systems that do 
-(such as Freenet or OceanStore) require state in the network 
+require state in the network 
 for remembering what the current version of a document is.
 Thus, to keep a version of a Web page available, 
-it does not suffice to keep a copy on your computer; additionally,
-the network has to remember the associated versioning information.
+it does not suffice to keep a copy on your computer.
 
-Extending OceanStore's *heartbeats*, we propose pointer records, 
-small, digitally signed files containing the identifier of a document, 
-a timestamp, and the hash of its current version.
+Extending OceanStore's "heartbeats," we propose *pointer records*, 
+signed files containing a document's id, 
+the hash of its current version, and a timestamp.
 Pointer records, like other files, can be downloaded from any peer 
 that has a copy. We can find all available pointer records for a document 
 through the same mechanism we use to find files in the peer-to-peer network 
@@ -70,8 +69,7 @@
 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
+We also present a simple model for storing only the
 differences between versions.
 
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