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

[Benja Fallenstein]

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Module name:    manuscripts
Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/05/29 15:36:39

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diff -u manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.8 
manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.9
--- manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.8       Thu May 29 14:07:58 2003
+++ manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst   Thu May 29 15:36:39 2003
@@ -43,32 +43,60 @@
 .. documents can be linked like web pages,
    which would make them part of the web:
 
-Documents written with OpenOffice or Microsoft Word
-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.
+Bush's Memex [XXX] was to be a hypermedia device
+for personal use, not for hypermedia publication.
+Yet, while many Web pages are densely interlinked today,
+desktop documents still have rarely any hypermedia
+functionality. Even though documents written with
+OpenOffice.org or Microsoft Word can nowadays be
+linked just like HTML files, users almost never
+do so. 
+
+Hypermedia on the desktop would be useful for
+keeping hyperlinked notes, for referring to
+pieces of documents in discussion, or to
+refer from a short memo to a document
+with more in-depth information.
+Both individuals and workgroups could benefit
+from such functionality.
 
 .. 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. 
+We believe that a major burden to hypermedia 
+on the desktop is that links break when documents
+are published, moved between folders, or sent by email.
+
+When sending a couple of hyperlinked notes per
+mail, the receiver would have to assemble them
+into the sender's directory structure. A document
+collaboratively authored by sender and receiver
+could not be linked to, except if both parties
+place it in exactly the same directory.
 
 .. 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.
+If desktop documents could be refered to independently
+of their location, it would be possible to make
+non-breaking links to them. When a document is published
+on the Web, it would have the same URI [XXX] as on the
+author's desktop. When a link to a document is emailed,
+the receiver could follow the link as long as their
+computer can find the linked document-- on its local
+harddisk, attached to another email, or on the
+public Internet.
+
+Systems like Lotus Notes [XXX], a popular database sharing 
+and collaboration tool, use location-independent, 
+global identifiers to refer to documents.
+
+.. Freenet's cryptographical identifiers:
+
+XXX
 
 .. non-breaking links seem not globally resolvable:
 
-However, many hypermedia systems 
+Many hypermedia systems (including Lotus Notes)
 assume that identifiers either have to
 say where a document can be found on the network, or they
 cannot be efficiently resolved on a global scale.
@@ -82,8 +110,9 @@
 
 .. but DHTs can do it:
 
-Recent developments in peer-to-peer systems have
-rendered this assumption obsolete. Structured overlay networks
+However, recent developments in peer-to-peer systems have
+rendered this assumption obsolete. Distributed hashtables
+(DHTs) and other structured overlay networks
 
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 allow location-independent identifiers
 to be resolved on a global scale.
@@ -96,12 +125,10 @@
 all external links to a document can be found using
 a DHT.
 
-.. brief summary how DHTs work: XXX
+.. brief summary how DHTs work? XXX
 
 This, we believe, may be the most important result of peer-to-peer 
 research with regard to hypermedia.
-
-.. Freenet's cryptographical identifiers:
 
 .. structure of this paper: