[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Branch:         
Changes by:     Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden>        03/11/02 14:43:00

Modified files:
        pointers       : article.rst 

Log message:
        Wayback

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.80&tr2=1.81&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: manuscripts/pointers/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.80 
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.81
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.80       Sun Nov  2 14:34:37 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst    Sun Nov  2 14:43:00 2003
@@ -413,15 +413,19 @@
     - should be possible to attach metadata to pointers
 
 **A distributed wayback machine.**
-a surprise benefit: distributed wayback machine
-
-    - as long as anyone has a copy, ...
-    
-    - to ensure archival, a libraries or other institutions
-      can make a P2P network of servers that
-      stores all blocks and can also be queried
-
-
+A surprising benefit of pointer records is that
+a file-shared web would *automatically* work
+as an enormous, distributed wayback machine.
+As long as anyone has a copy of a particular version
+of a web page, anyone can retrieve it.
+To ensure archival, a libraries or other institutions
+could easily make a P2P network of servers 
+ensuring that all relevant blocks
+would be archived. Unlike with the wayback machine,
+there would be no difficulty in setting up or accessing
+the system because it could use the exact same technologies
+as the rest of the file-shared web, simply configured slightly
+differently.
 
 **Software / media updates.**
 Distributed apt-get / windows update