Re: [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:02:54PM +0200, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
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> Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> | On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 07:04:57PM +0200, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> |>Tuomas J. Lukka wrote:
> |>| +The Storm abstraction does not provide any new functionality;
> |>| +indeed, it does not provide all the features of advanced
> |>| +systems such as OceanStore or Freenet.
> |>| +Rather, it is the *least requirements*
> |>| +on which a pointer records -based
> |>| +P2P Web system may be built.
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> |>What?!? This is bogus; an application need not implement block-level
> |>storage and a network need not implement general reverse indexing to
> |>make use of pointer records.
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> | Ok, some other way of expressing it? A minimal convenient set?
> | Or a minimal set in context of ...
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> Hm, don't yet know how to put it, but it is a powerful and
> simple-to-implement abstraction for P2P Web and other P2P applications,
> and it works particularly well with pointer records.

A simple abstraction we suggest could be the foundation layer of a P2P web?

        Tuomas