[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm article.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/01/19 14:40:38

Modified files:
        storm          : article.rst 

Log message:
        first try at explaining our approach

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/storm/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.3&tr2=1.4&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: manuscripts/storm/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.3 manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.4
--- manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.3   Sun Jan 19 11:11:23 2003
+++ manuscripts/storm/article.rst       Sun Jan 19 14:40:37 2003
@@ -14,7 +14,14 @@
 by a client. Yet, every time content is moved, links to it break
 in popular hypermedia systems.
 
+...
 
+Our system allows documents and document content to be freely copied
+without breaking links. As long as a link and the documents
+it links are currently accessible, the link can be shown. 
+We archieve this by assigning documents and contents permanent,
+location-independent identifiers, and keeping an efficient index
+of all data by its identity.
 
 
 
@@ -56,6 +63,13 @@
 - CFS (The Chord project's Cooperative File System)
 - The Internet Backplane Protocol
 - Issue about nomadicity, Communications of the ACM (Sep 2001)
+  - Note: Support for nomadicity includes scaling of resource
+    usage (e.g. bandwidth availability), which we're
+    less concerned with here.
+  - Future work needed: Currently, the Storm interfaces
+    do not provide information about underlying network conditions,
+    thus we can't e.g. show to the user what blocks
+    are available w/o network lookup and which aren't.
 - Delay-tolerant networks (http://dtnsig.org/)
 - OceanStore
 - Lifestreams, because they are a project believing