However, the advantages of immutable content may be superior for fixed documents or trusted distros released at discrete intervals but rich media has significant variation or even user-specific customisation. The question that this raises for the namecoin community is whether decentralisation of content and verification of hashes could be part of the evolution of NameCoin (or whether support for another alternative to http is anticipated for decentralised web)."finely-grained, trustless, distributed, easily federated Content Delivery Network"
IPFS - an alternative publish/subscribe paradigm?
IPFS - an alternative publish/subscribe paradigm?
Neocities have announced support for IPFS, a supposed distributed file system (publish) with cryptocraphical hashes (subscribe) for content redundancy. I've haven't studies the protocol in depth so not certain as to their claims for
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Re: IPFS - an alternative publish/subscribe paradigm?
The main question that comes up for me when I see proposals like this is "How is this better and/or different from existing things like Freenet or Zeronet?" I assume that Neocities is at least aware of Freenet and probably of Zeronet too -- so I'm guessing there are substantive differences, but they're not obvious to me when reading your link.drllau wrote:Neocities have announced support for IPFS, a supposed distributed file system (publish) with cryptocraphical hashes (subscribe) for content redundancy. I've haven't studies the protocol in depth so not certain as to their claims forHowever, the advantages of immutable content may be superior for fixed documents or trusted distros released at discrete intervals but rich media has significant variation or even user-specific customisation. The question that this raises for the namecoin community is whether decentralisation of content and verification of hashes could be part of the evolution of NameCoin (or whether support for another alternative to http is anticipated for decentralised web)."finely-grained, trustless, distributed, easily federated Content Delivery Network"
That's quite cool that they're looking at working with Namecoin. We should reach out to them.
Re: IPFS - an alternative publish/subscribe paradigm?
I saw a comment (can't provide the link, it was on somewhere on Zeronet, can't find it now) that IPFS is not completely censorship free. Maybe it's only for the gateway service.biolizard89 wrote: The main question that comes up for me when I see proposals like this is "How is this better and/or different from existing things like Freenet or Zeronet?" I assume that Neocities is at least aware of Freenet and probably of Zeronet too -- so I'm guessing there are substantive differences, but they're not obvious to me when reading your link.
That's quite cool that they're looking at working with Namecoin. We should reach out to them.
In any case, it'd be great to be able to do more with Zeronet (in addition to the domain names).