[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
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Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/11/05 09:56:44

Modified files:
        pointers       : article.rst 

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        edit abstract, intro

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http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.127&tr2=1.128&r1=text&r2=text

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diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.127 
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.128
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.127      Wed Nov  5 07:35:04 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst    Wed Nov  5 09:56:43 2003
@@ -37,14 +37,16 @@
 as a P2P Web (except, naturally, for dynamically generated CGI pages), 
 and
 web pages
-can reside on any host, even moved to computers
-that are off-line through physical media or archived,
+can reside on any host, even moved 
+through physical media
+to computers
+that are off-line,
 without having to change the reference.
 Past versions of a web page 
 remain accessible as long as anybody keeps a copy.
 We discuss our preliminary implementation,
 and
-applications to
+applications of pointer records and the Storm data model to
 P2P-based software distribution and upgrading,
 
 
@@ -80,13 +82,17 @@
 no central point of failure for a Web page; it could be downloaded
 from any host that has a copy. This would save bandwidth
 and increase availability. However, if the Web worked like
-a filesharing system, Web pages could not be updated easily.
+a filesharing system, Web pages could not be updated.
 Some filesharing systems offer permanent URIs for files 
 (e.g., [freenet-ieee-andalso-edonkey2kurl]_),
-based on the files' cryptographic hashes.
-A new version of a Web page would have a different hash,
-and thus a different URI. Others could be confused by
-finding two files with the same name but different content (XXX).
+based on the files' cryptographic hashes,
+which could be used for linking; but
+a new version of a Web page would have a different hash,
+and thus a different URI. [#update]_
+
+.. [#update] When updating a page, it would be clearly
+   infeasible to update all pages linking to it, and thus
+   all pages linking to *them*, and thus...
 
 There are some (non-filesharing) P2P systems 
 that do offer an update mechanism. *CFS* [dabek01widearea]_