[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
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Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/11/06 08:39:08

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        pointers       : article.rst 

Log message:
        main points

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.150&tr2=1.151&r1=text&r2=text

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 Abstract
 ========
 
+- The Web should keep previous versions as long as someone
+  is interested, even if the original publisher has lost interest
+- File sharing systems kind of do that
+- But you can't update files in them
+- P2P systems that do support updating don't support
+  this notion of permanence
+- We present a simple model that *does* do it
+- We present an even simpler model that it could be
+  implemented upon; the simpler model maps directly
+  to many current p2p systems
+- It can thus use different P2P networks as backends,
+  and could thus become a agreed-upon way to do
+  versioning (we believe that the current systems,
+  which require state to be kept in *one* of the networks
+  really can not)
+
 The Web could benefit greatly from the bandwith savings,
 increased availability, and reduced server costs offered
 by filesharing systems.