[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Changes by:     Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden>        03/05/30 13:05:15

Modified files:
        storm          : short-paper.rst 

Log message:
        more-reorg-to-shorten-intro

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst.diff?tr1=1.28&tr2=1.29&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst
diff -u manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.28 
manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.29
--- manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.28      Fri May 30 13:02:36 2003
+++ manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst   Fri May 30 13:05:15 2003
@@ -86,6 +86,29 @@
 using unique and random-looking numbers to identify documents
 is not possible on a global scale.
 
+.. but DHTs can do it:
+
+.. can be used to implement external links, backlinks &c:
+
+However, recent developments in peer-to-peer systems have
+rendered this assumption obsolete. Distributed hashtables (DHTs)
+[malkhi02viceroy-andalso-maymounkov02kademlia-andalso-ratnasamy01can-andalso-stoica01chord-andalso-zhao01tapestry]_
 
+allow location-independent identifiers
+to be resolved on a global scale. 
+Balakrishnan et al.  [balakrishnan03semanticfree]_ argue
+that DHTs are suitable for the next generation 
+Reference Resolutions Services (RRS) [#]_.
+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 published external links to a document can be found using
+a DHT.
+
+.. [#] Domain Name System (DNS) [rfc1101]_ is a widely used RRS 
+   system in the Internet.
+
+
 .. Include to the paragraph above ?
    "A major reason is that links break when documents are moved 
    around or sent by mail." [HH]
@@ -123,29 +146,6 @@
    However, finding a document on Freenet can be
    quite slow, taking many seconds. This is not
    acceptable for general Web publishing.
-
-.. but DHTs can do it:
-
-However, recent developments in peer-to-peer systems have
-rendered this assumption obsolete. Distributed hashtables (DHTs)
-[malkhi02viceroy-andalso-maymounkov02kademlia-andalso-ratnasamy01can-andalso-stoica01chord-andalso-zhao01tapestry]_
 
-allow location-independent identifiers
-to be resolved on a global scale. In fact, 
-Balakrishnan et al.  [balakrishnan03semanticfree]_ argue
-that DHTs are suitable for the next generation 
-Reference Resolutions Services (RRS) [#]_.
-
-.. [#] Domain Name System (DNS) [rfc1101]_ is a widely used RRS 
-   system in the Internet.
-
-.. can be used to implement external links, backlinks &c:
-
-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 published external links to a document can be found using
-a DHT.
 
 .. contribution of this paper: XXX