[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
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Changes by:     Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden>        03/11/10 13:57:55

Modified files:
        pointers       : article.rst 

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        Reviewing with Benja

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http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.226&tr2=1.227&r1=text&r2=text

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diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.226 
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.227
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.226      Mon Nov 10 10:50:35 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst    Mon Nov 10 13:57:54 2003
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 increased availability, and reduced server costs offered
 by filesharing systems.
 However, current update mechanisms for P2P networks do not have
-the simplicity of filesharing, as versioning
+the simplicity and other advantages of filesharing, as versioning
 information has to be kept as special state in the network.
 
 
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
     because 
 
 To allow versioning information to be stored like other data,
-we propose to use *pointer records*,
+we propose *pointer records*,
 which can be shared and sought for
 through the network as ordinary files.
 Similar to
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
 a simple API for hash-based storage systems, such as P2P networks.
 Using pointer records layered on top of the Storm data model, 
 all versions of a document, stored on any host 
-in any participating P2P network,
+on any participating P2P network,
 can be found using the same URI. 
 
 .. Past versions of a web page 
@@ -137,13 +137,13 @@
 To facilitate the debate,
 SpaceViews, a publication of the National Space Society,
 published a list of links to web pages of both
-Cassini opponents and supporters [#rtg-links]_.
+Cassini opponents and supporters.
 In 2003,
 only six years after the launch, 
 only 29 
-of the 83 links provided by SpaceViews continue to work.
+of the 83 links provided by SpaceViews continue to work [#rtg-links]_.
 Almost two thirds of the debate
-has fallen off the Web. "If I have seen further it is by standing
+have fallen off the Web. "If I have seen further it is by standing
 on the shoulders of giants;" but how can we do that today,
 if the shoulders keep rotting away?
 The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine [waybackmachine]_
@@ -166,6 +166,14 @@
 We hold that a P2P Web should provide
 the following features of filesharing systems to its users: 
 
+Distributed archivability
+       The ability to
+       keep a version originally published by 
+       someone else online, *accessible to others*,
+       under its original URI, for any period of time
+       (so that when the original publisher loses interest,
+       a page does not have to fall off the Web).
+
 Off-line capability
        The ability to 
        download versions and use them off-line without 
@@ -184,14 +192,6 @@
        (e.g. anonymity vs. efficiency); 
        c) because people can use their favorite network
        while agreeing on a common data model (network effect).
-
-Distributed archivability
-       The ability to
-       keep a version originally published by 
-       someone else online, *accessible to others*,
-       under its original URI, for any period of time
-       (so that when the original publisher loses interest,
-       a page does not have to fall off the Web).
 
 In a P2P Web, pages could be
 linked using  permanent URIs