[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

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Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/11/03 13:09:06

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        pointers       : article.rst 

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        move para about network integration from intro into records section

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--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.98       Mon Nov  3 13:01:43 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst    Mon Nov  3 13:09:05 2003
@@ -137,11 +137,15 @@
 thermoelectric generators (RTGs), using plutonium
 to generate electricity. Activists claim that
 the launch of such devices poses a threat to
-billions of human lives [#cassini]_. To facilitate the debate,
+billions of human lives. 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]_.
 
+.. [#rtg-links] ``http://www.seds.org/spaceviews/cassini/ rtgpages.html``.
+   All links dereferenced on October 27th, 2003.
+
+
 Of the 83 links provided by SpaceViews, only 29 continue to work in 2003.
 Only six years after the launch, almost two thirds of the debate
 have fallen off the Web. "If I have seen further it is by standing
@@ -195,16 +199,6 @@
 one Web server (or a single set of servers) maintained
 by the publisher of a document.
 
-Because they require no centralized version management,
-pointer records may be able to unify the namespaces
-of different P2P systems in a similar way to hash-based identifiers.
-Similar to searching different P2P networks in order
-to resolve a SHA-1 hash, you can search different networks
-to find pointer records for a document. A document
-could be originally edited in OceanStore, then published
-in Gnutella or a DHT-based system, using an anonymized system
-like Achord [hazel02achord]_ if it contains controversial content.
-
 The remainder of this paper is structured as follows.
 In Section 2, we introduce pointer records.
 In Section 3, we propose a simple, hash-based data model
@@ -281,6 +275,16 @@
 .. XXX move previous paragraph to Applications? but it'd be nice
    to show here how this relates to existing systems. HMMM.
 
+Because they require no centralized version management,
+pointer records may be able to unify the namespaces
+of different P2P systems in a similar way to hash-based identifiers.
+Similar to searching different P2P networks in order
+to resolve a SHA-1 hash, you can search different networks
+to find pointer records for a document. A document
+could be originally edited in OceanStore, then published
+in Gnutella or a DHT-based system, using an anonymized system
+like Achord [hazel02achord]_ if it contains controversial content.
+
 ..  - Carries over the four benefits from hash-based addressing:
 
       - Version references movable between servers
@@ -527,23 +531,6 @@
 
 .. bibliography:: ../gzigzag
 
-
-
-
-.. NOTES =================================================================
-
-
-.. [#cassini] ``http://www.seds.org/spaceviews/cassini/rtg.html``
-
-.. [#rtg-links] ``http://www.seds.org/spaceviews/cassini/rtgpages.html``.
-   All links dereferenced on October 27th, 2003.
-
-.. .. [#academic-articles-hashlinking] A notable exception
-      may be academic articles, in which references to other articles
-      are ideally to an immutable version, and in which references
-      are generally not circular, making this domain map neatly
-      to the properties of hash-based referencing.
-      XXX Except for "in press", "unpublished manuscripts", ...