[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Branch:         
Changes by:     Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden>        03/11/09 13:55:46

Modified files:
        pointers       : article.rst 

Log message:
        Editing

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.176&tr2=1.177&r1=text&r2=text

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Index: manuscripts/pointers/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.176 
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.177
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.176      Sun Nov  9 13:36:46 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst    Sun Nov  9 13:55:46 2003
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
 Abstract
 ========
 
-.. XXX End half of paragraph untrue: oceanstore
 
 The Web could benefit greatly from the bandwith savings,
 increased availability, and reduced server costs offered
@@ -41,7 +40,9 @@
 in P2P, updating has so far only been investigated
 in systems that do not allow files to be obtained
 from any user who has a downloaded a copy,
-thus making them disappear once the original publisher loses interest.
+but only from locations designated by the system.
+
+.. thus making them disappear once the original publisher loses interest.
 
 .. by allowing files to be downloaded from any user who has a copy
 
@@ -100,19 +101,23 @@
 .. Introduce location-independent Web idea (citing
    benefits from hash-based addressing)---
 
-Filesharing systems [gnutellaurl-andalso-edonkey2kurl]_ 
+Filesharing systems [edonkey2kurl-andalso-gnutellaurl]_ 
 allow users to let others download
-files on their hard disks.
+files from their hard disks and locate files by searching
+the network of all participating users rather than designated
+servers.
 If the Web worked like a filesharing system, there would be
 no central point of failure for a web page; a page could be downloaded
 from any host with a copy. This would save bandwidth
 and increase availability; pages would stay online as long as
 any user keeps a copy of them on their local harddisk.
 Files could be
-linked using  permanent URIs based on the files' cryptographic 
-hashes, as in [freenet-ieee-andalso-edonkey2kurl]_.
-However, if the Web worked this way,
-web pages could not be updated;
+linked using  permanent URIs 
+[freenet-ieee-andalso-edonkey2kurl]_
+based on the files' cryptographic 
+hashes.
+However, in such a scheme,
+web pages could not be updated:
 a new version of a web page would have a different hash,
 and thus a different URI. [#update]_
 
@@ -125,7 +130,7 @@
 
 There are some non-filesharing P2P systems 
 that do offer an update mechanism. However, none of these
-provides the benefits of a filesharing system: 
+provides all the benefits of a filesharing system: 
 
 - Being able to download version(s) and use off-line
 - Being able to use neighbour's computer's cache