[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 21:44:26

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diff -u manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.13 
manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.14
--- manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.13      Thu May 29 21:23:08 2003
+++ manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst   Thu May 29 21:44:26 2003
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
    useful on the local desktop.
 
 We propose Storm, a storage system for use both on the
-desktop and the public network. Storm assigns a document
+desktop and the public network. Storm assigns each document
 a permanent URI when it is created. Using peer-to-peer
 technology, we can find documents even though our URIs
 do not include location information.
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@
 .. links needed that don't break when documents are moved:
 
 A major obstacle to hypermedia 
-on the desktop is breaking links. A user receiving
-hyperlinked documents would have to reconstruct
+on the desktop is broken links. A user receiving
+hyperlinked documents by email, for example, would have to reconstruct
 the original directory structure; otherwise the links
 won't work.
 
@@ -110,23 +110,22 @@
 
 However, recent developments in peer-to-peer systems have
 rendered this assumption obsolete. Distributed hashtables (DHTs)
-[malkhi02viceroy-andalso-maymounkov02kademlia-andalso-ratnasamy01can-andalso-rowston01pastry-andalso-stoica01chord-andalso-zhao01tapestry]_
 
+[malkhi02viceroy-andalso-maymounkov02kademlia-andalso-ratnasamy01can-andalso-stoica01chord-andalso-zhao01tapestry]_
 
 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,
+DHTs can not only be used to efficiently retrieve documents,
+but also metadata *about* documents. For example,
 unlike many link services that only query a limited
 set of servers for links [hill94extending]_,
-all external links to a document can be found using
+all published external links to a document can be found using
 a DHT.
 
 .. contribution of this paper:
 
-This document describes Storm, a library for
+This paper describes Storm, a library for
 storing and retrieving data using 
 location-independent URIs.
 
@@ -141,11 +140,9 @@
 documents from the network.
 Our system, Storm (for STORage Modules),
 uses Freenet-like cryptographic identifiers.
-
 On the user level, Storm could be used as a
 replacement for both file names and HTTP URLs
-as document identifiers (although our implementation 
-uses both files and HTTP internally).
+as document identifiers.
 
 .. part of the web -- URN scheme (so far experimental, 
    targetting registration):
@@ -162,8 +159,7 @@
 by using the Java library directly or through an
 HTTP gateway, which, given a Storm URN, finds and
 returns the associated file. Documents can be
-uploaded into Storm using HTTP PUT operations
-on the gateway.
+uploaded into Storm using HTTP PUT.
 
 .. Applications we are integrated with:
 
@@ -181,8 +177,8 @@
 URNs yet, but can load and save documents using
 Storm through the HTTP gateway. OpenOffice.org
 can load documents through the HTTP gateway,
-but cannot save to it, because the gateway
-does not support WebDAV (HTTP-based distributed
+but cannot save changes, because the gateway
+does not yet support WebDAV (HTTP-based distributed
 authoring and versioning).
 
 .. web interface for searching etc.
@@ -211,11 +207,12 @@
 While the core of Storm has been in use for almost
 three years, the peer-to-peer subsystem has only recently
 been implemented.
-
 Currently, a number of systems can use Storm
-through the HTTP gateway. A next step will be
-WebDAV support, allowing many more systems to
-save data in Storm.
+through an HTTP gateway. 
+
+.. A next step will be
+   WebDAV support, allowing many more systems to
+   save data in Storm.
 
 Storm can also be used to implement the more ambitious
 Xanalogical hypertext model [#]_ [lukka02guids]_.