[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm article.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/01/27 22:10:11

Modified files:
        storm          : article.rst 

Log message:
        Possible intro: DHTs challenge an TBL 'Axiom of Web Architecture'

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/storm/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.41&tr2=1.42&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: manuscripts/storm/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.41 manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.42
--- manuscripts/storm/article.rst:1.41  Mon Jan 27 21:04:04 2003
+++ manuscripts/storm/article.rst       Mon Jan 27 22:10:11 2003
@@ -5,7 +5,21 @@
 1. Introduction
 ===============
 
-Documents move freely between computers, being 
+[maybe place this first:]
+An important assumption underlying the Web and many other hypermedia
+systems is that an identifier, if it is to be resolvable, must
+include information about where to find the resource it identifies.
+Berners-Lee [ref NameMyth] argues that identifying documents
+by unique, completely random identifiers may be desirable,
+as unlike for a URL, there is little reason for a random identifier
+ever to be changed, but that it is not possible to resolve such names 
+on a global scale. However, recent development in peer-to-peer systems
+has made scalable indexing systems possible, rendering this assumption
+obsolete. This, we believe, is the most important result of
+peer-to-peer research with regard to hypermedia.
+[/maybe]
+
+In today's computing world, documents move quite freely between computers, 
being 
 sent as e-mail attachments, carried around on disks,
 published on the web, moved between desktop and laptop systems,
 downloaded for off-line reading or copied between computers in a LAN. 
@@ -62,8 +76,13 @@
 scalable hashtables possible.
 
 ->
-Binding documents to servers has been necessary to make the Web scalable:
-
+Binding documents to servers has been necessary to make the Web scalable,
+as no central index of documents was needed.
+Berners-Lee [ref NameMyth] argues that identifying documents
+by unique, completely random identifiers may be desirable because
+there is never a need to change such an identifier because e.g. a server
+moves to a different organization, but that it is not possible to
+resolve 
 
 
 {If standards could be agreed on, web servers should be able to