[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

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Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/11/06 02:54:57

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diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.143 
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.144
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.143      Thu Nov  6 02:41:46 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst    Thu Nov  6 02:54:57 2003
@@ -453,7 +453,8 @@
 with different properties (such as speed and anonymity),
 the caches of other machines on the LAN,
 and the complete set of files ever downloaded to the local harddisk.
-This model is analogous to the HTTP protocol: a common language
+The Storm API makes such clients simple to implement.
+The model is analogous to the HTTP protocol: a common language
 spoken by all clients and servers.
 
 In an ad-hoc wireless local network between mobile devices,
@@ -475,7 +476,7 @@
 To ensure archival, libraries or other institutions
 could easily make a P2P network of servers 
 ensuring that all relevant blocks
-would be archived. Unlike with the wayback machine,
+would be archived. Unlike with the Wayback Machine,
 there would be no difficulty in setting up or accessing
 the system because it could use the exact same technologies
 as the rest of the file-shared web, simply configured slightly
@@ -491,14 +492,13 @@
 downloaded automatically, if publicly available.
 For versioned media files, the player could
 notify the user of updates or download them automatically;
-for example, if spelling and translation errors
+for example, after spelling and translation errors
 in a movie's subtitles have been corrected.
 
-**Software updates.**
-As an example of a different application,
-pointer records could be used to implement
-a p2p version of software upgrades
-such as Debian's ``apt`` or Windows update,
+**Software updates:**
+Pointer records could be used to implement
+a P2P version of software upgrades
+such as Windows Update and Debian's ``apt``,
 allowing for large bandwidth savings because
 updates could be downloaded from the closest
 host that has a copy.
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@
 created by pointer records. 
 Through a simple reverse index, it was also easy to implement
 a "backlinks" functionality, which tells the user which
-pages link *to* a given web page.
+pages link *to* the current web page.
 When run on the local machine,
 documents owned by the machine's owner can also be
 edited through simple WebDAV clients.
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@
 the network to store any versioning-related information,
 can easily be used by several different types
 of P2P networks, and allows versions of documents
-to be resolved for as long as any host on the network
+to be found as long as any host on the network
 keeps a copy.
 
 We have also presented the Storm data model, a simple
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@
 random data), a publisher could make correct past versions
 hard to access. A time-stamping mechanism may help here.
 
-We have proposed to use pointer records as the versioning
+In this paper, we have proposed to use pointer records as the versioning
 mechanism for a location-independent Web.
 We hope that by making links more permanent, this can make
 the Web a more solid foundation for standing