[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

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Changes by:     Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden>        03/11/10 03:50:54

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        pointers       : article.rst 

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        Reorg; intro more logical.

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--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.183      Mon Nov 10 03:44:33 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst    Mon Nov 10 03:50:54 2003
@@ -111,23 +111,44 @@
 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.
-Pages can be
-linked using  permanent URIs 
-based on the files' cryptographic 
-hashes, as in 
-[freenet-ieee-andalso-edonkey2kurl]_.
-However, in such a scheme,
-web pages cannot be updated:
-a new version of a web page would have a different hash,
-and thus a different URI. [#update]_
-
-.. [#update] When updating a page, it would be clearly
-   infeasible to update all pages linking to it, and thus
-   all pages linking to *them*, and thus...
 
 .. XXX Mention "Name-based not possible as a suitable system
    for names doesn't exist?"
 
+Such permanence is an important concern, as seen by the following example.
+In 1997, NASA launched the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft
+on a mission to Saturn. Before the launch, the mission
+was widely criticized as a potential threat
+to billions of human lives,
+for its use of 
+plutonium
+to generate electricity. 
+To facilitate the debate,
+SpaceViews, a publication of the National Space Society,
+published a list of links to web pages of both
+Cassini opponents and supporters [#rtg-links]_.
+In the year 2003,
+only six years after the launch, 
+only 29 
+of the 83 links provided by SpaceViews continue to work.
+Almost two thirds of the debate
+has fallen off the Web. "If I have seen further it is by standing
+on the shoulders of giants;" but how can we do that today,
+if the shoulders keep rotting away?
+The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine [waybackmachine]_
+alleviates these concerns somewhat, but it introduces
+a single point of failure-- and censorship-- for the *entire* Web!
+
+.. (cut) radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), using 
+
+..  Activists claim that
+    the launch of such devices poses a threat to
+    billions of human lives. 
+
+.. [#rtg-links] ``http://www.seds.org/spaceviews/cassini/ rtgpages.html``.
+   All links dereferenced on October 27th, 2003.
+
+
 We hold that to succeed, a P2P Web would need to provide
 the following features of filesharing systems for its users: 
 
@@ -168,44 +189,25 @@
     and stops publishing a page, it disappears, even if
     someone else has kept a copy.
 
-There are some non-filesharing P2P systems 
-that do offer an update mechanism. However, none of these
-provides all the above benefits of a filesharing system: 
-
-...
-
-Permanence is an important concern, as seen by the following example.
-In 1997, NASA launched the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft
-on a mission to Saturn. Before the launch, the mission
-was widely criticized as a potential threat
-to billions of human lives,
-for its use of 
-plutonium
-to generate electricity. 
-To facilitate the debate,
-SpaceViews, a publication of the National Space Society,
-published a list of links to web pages of both
-Cassini opponents and supporters [#rtg-links]_.
-In the year 2003,
-only six years after the launch, 
-only 29 
-of the 83 links provided by SpaceViews continue to work.
-Almost two thirds of the debate
-has fallen off the Web. "If I have seen further it is by standing
-on the shoulders of giants;" but how can we do that today,
-if the shoulders keep rotting away?
-The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine [waybackmachine]_
-alleviates these concerns somewhat, but it introduces
-a single point of failure-- and censorship-- for the *entire* Web!
+In a P2P Web, pages could be
+linked using  permanent URIs 
+based on the files' cryptographic 
+hashes, as in 
+[freenet-ieee-andalso-edonkey2kurl]_.
+However, in such a scheme,
+web pages cannot be updated:
+a new version of a web page would have a different hash,
+and thus a different URI. [#update]_
 
-.. (cut) radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), using 
+.. [#update] When updating a page, it would be clearly
+   infeasible to update all pages linking to it, and thus
+   all pages linking to *them*, and thus...
 
-..  Activists claim that
-    the launch of such devices poses a threat to
-    billions of human lives. 
+..  There are some non-filesharing P2P systems 
+    that do offer an update mechanism. However, none of these
+    provides all the above benefits of a filesharing system: 
 
-.. [#rtg-links] ``http://www.seds.org/spaceviews/cassini/ rtgpages.html``.
-   All links dereferenced on October 27th, 2003.
+...
 
 .. <<<We don't propose that every byte of information ever published
    on the Web has to be kept around forever. However,