[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

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 The Web could benefit greatly from the bandwith savings,
 increased availability, and reduced server costs offered
-by filesharing systems by eliminating single points of failure.
-However, most current P2P systems have no facility 
-for updating documents, and those that do 
-require keeping track of the current version as extra state in the network.
+by filesharing systems.
+However, filesharing systems don't allow documents
+to be updated.
 
 We propose *pointer records*, 
 signed files containing a document's id, 
 its current version's hash, and a timestamp.
-The key difference to earlier approaches is that
-the pointer records are treated as ordinary files
-that are indexed
-using normal P2P techniques for locating the most
-recent version.
+Pointer records are shared and sought for
+through the network like ordinary files.
 We also present the Storm data model, 
-an API abstracting over
-several different types of P2P networks and other
+a common API for different types P2P networks and other
 storage media. Using pointer records and the Storm
 data model, several P2P networks can be used interoperably
-as a P2P Web (except, naturally, for dynamically generated CGI pages), 
+as a P2P Web (except, naturally, for dynamically generated pages), 
 and web pages
 can have the same URI while residing on any host on any network.
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