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

[Benja Fallenstein]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/05/29 14:07:58

Modified files:
        storm          : short-paper.rst 

Log message:
        twid

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst.diff?tr1=1.7&tr2=1.8&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst
diff -u manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.7 
manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.8
--- manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.7       Mon May 26 23:10:27 2003
+++ manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst   Thu May 29 14:07:58 2003
@@ -34,8 +34,7 @@
    \terms{Design, Reliability, Performance}
 
    \keywords{versioned hypermedia, dangling links, 
-   xanalogical storage, peer-to-peer,
-   location-independent identifiers}
+   peer-to-peer, location-independent identifiers}
 
 
 Introduction
@@ -45,19 +44,34 @@
    which would make them part of the web:
 
 Documents written with OpenOffice or Microsoft Word
-can nowadays be hyperlinked just like web pages--
-but nobody does it. XXX
+can nowadays be hyperlinked like web pages--
+but users don't do so. URLs of web pages are pasted
+into documents and emails, but links to other
+documents and emails are rarely used.
+
+Such links could be of great benefit to small
+workgroups, for example, to communicate
+connections between documents better.
 
 .. links needed that don't break when documents are moved:
 
+We believe that a major reason is that such links
+would break when documents are published, moved
+between folders, or sent by email. Changing all the links
+when moving a document is too inconvenient. 
+
 .. using location-independent identifiers for
    non-breaking links:
 
+In order for links not to break, documents would have
+to be identified independently of their location.
+
 .. non-breaking links seem not globally resolvable:
 
-Several hypermedia systems assume that identifiers either have to
+However, many hypermedia systems 
+assume that identifiers either have to
 say where a document can be found on the network, or they
-cannot be resolved globally.
+cannot be efficiently resolved on a global scale.
 URLs, location-dependent identifiers, break when documents are
 moved. Link services often query only a select set of link
 servers, not the whole network [hill94extending-andalso-carr95dls]_.
@@ -68,13 +82,19 @@
 
 .. but DHTs can do it:
 
-However, recent developments in peer-to-peer systems have
+Recent developments in peer-to-peer systems have
 rendered this assumption obsolete. Structured overlay networks
 
[stoica01chord-andalso-ratnasamy01can-andalso-zhao01tapestry-andalso-rowston01pastry-andalso-maymounkov02kademlia-andalso-malkhi02viceroy-andalso-AspnesS2003-andalso-bonsma02swan]_
 
 allow location-independent identifiers
 to be resolved on a global scale.
 
 .. can be used to implement external links, backlinks &c:
+
+DHTs can not only be used to efficiently retrieve documents
+given their location-independent identifier, but also
+to retrieve metadata about the documents. For example,
+all external links to a document can be found using
+a DHT.
 
 .. brief summary how DHTs work: XXX