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[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst
From: |
Benja Fallenstein |
Subject: |
[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst |
Date: |
Thu, 29 May 2003 21:44:26 -0400 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/gzz
Module name: manuscripts
Changes by: Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden> 03/05/29 21:44:26
Modified files:
storm : short-paper.rst
Log message:
more
CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst.diff?tr1=1.13&tr2=1.14&r1=text&r2=text
Patches:
Index: manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst
diff -u manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.13
manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.14
--- manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.13 Thu May 29 21:23:08 2003
+++ manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst Thu May 29 21:44:26 2003
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
useful on the local desktop.
We propose Storm, a storage system for use both on the
-desktop and the public network. Storm assigns a document
+desktop and the public network. Storm assigns each document
a permanent URI when it is created. Using peer-to-peer
technology, we can find documents even though our URIs
do not include location information.
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@
.. links needed that don't break when documents are moved:
A major obstacle to hypermedia
-on the desktop is breaking links. A user receiving
-hyperlinked documents would have to reconstruct
+on the desktop is broken links. A user receiving
+hyperlinked documents by email, for example, would have to reconstruct
the original directory structure; otherwise the links
won't work.
@@ -110,23 +110,22 @@
However, recent developments in peer-to-peer systems have
rendered this assumption obsolete. Distributed hashtables (DHTs)
-[malkhi02viceroy-andalso-maymounkov02kademlia-andalso-ratnasamy01can-andalso-rowston01pastry-andalso-stoica01chord-andalso-zhao01tapestry]_
+[malkhi02viceroy-andalso-maymounkov02kademlia-andalso-ratnasamy01can-andalso-stoica01chord-andalso-zhao01tapestry]_
allow location-independent identifiers
to be resolved on a global scale.
.. can be used to implement external links, backlinks &c:
-DHTs can not only be used to efficiently retrieve documents
-given their location-independent identifier, but also
-to retrieve metadata about the documents. For example,
+DHTs can not only be used to efficiently retrieve documents,
+but also metadata *about* documents. For example,
unlike many link services that only query a limited
set of servers for links [hill94extending]_,
-all external links to a document can be found using
+all published external links to a document can be found using
a DHT.
.. contribution of this paper:
-This document describes Storm, a library for
+This paper describes Storm, a library for
storing and retrieving data using
location-independent URIs.
@@ -141,11 +140,9 @@
documents from the network.
Our system, Storm (for STORage Modules),
uses Freenet-like cryptographic identifiers.
-
On the user level, Storm could be used as a
replacement for both file names and HTTP URLs
-as document identifiers (although our implementation
-uses both files and HTTP internally).
+as document identifiers.
.. part of the web -- URN scheme (so far experimental,
targetting registration):
@@ -162,8 +159,7 @@
by using the Java library directly or through an
HTTP gateway, which, given a Storm URN, finds and
returns the associated file. Documents can be
-uploaded into Storm using HTTP PUT operations
-on the gateway.
+uploaded into Storm using HTTP PUT.
.. Applications we are integrated with:
@@ -181,8 +177,8 @@
URNs yet, but can load and save documents using
Storm through the HTTP gateway. OpenOffice.org
can load documents through the HTTP gateway,
-but cannot save to it, because the gateway
-does not support WebDAV (HTTP-based distributed
+but cannot save changes, because the gateway
+does not yet support WebDAV (HTTP-based distributed
authoring and versioning).
.. web interface for searching etc.
@@ -211,11 +207,12 @@
While the core of Storm has been in use for almost
three years, the peer-to-peer subsystem has only recently
been implemented.
-
Currently, a number of systems can use Storm
-through the HTTP gateway. A next step will be
-WebDAV support, allowing many more systems to
-save data in Storm.
+through an HTTP gateway.
+
+.. A next step will be
+ WebDAV support, allowing many more systems to
+ save data in Storm.
Storm can also be used to implement the more ambitious
Xanalogical hypertext model [#]_ [lukka02guids]_.
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, (continued)
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/05/20
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/05/22
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/05/25
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/05/26
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/05/26
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/05/29
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/05/29
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/05/29
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/05/29
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/05/29
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst,
Benja Fallenstein <=
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/05/29
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Hermanni Hyytiälä, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Hermanni Hyytiälä, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Hermanni Hyytiälä, 2003/05/30