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[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst
From: |
Tuomas J. Lukka |
Subject: |
[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst |
Date: |
Sun, 09 Nov 2003 13:55:46 -0500 |
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
Patches:
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
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, (continued)
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/06
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/08
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst,
Tuomas J. Lukka <=
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/09
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/09
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10