[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst

[Hermanni Hyytiälä]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Branch:         
Changes by:     Hermanni Hyytiälä <address@hidden>      03/10/27 08:46:56

Modified files:
        pointers       : article.rst 

Log message:
        refs

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http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.11&tr2=1.12&r1=text&r2=text

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Index: manuscripts/pointers/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.11 
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.12
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.11       Mon Oct 27 08:13:36 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst    Mon Oct 27 08:46:56 2003
@@ -20,8 +20,8 @@
 .. History of location-dependence: `TBL ref`_ (like in HT'03 paper)
 
 .. Location-independent, semantic-free, *self-verifying* 
-   identifiers (ref SFR paper (Balakrishnan et.al. IPTPS'03),
-   ref Walfish paper); example: hash-based (ref 
+   identifiers (ref SFR paper [balakrishnan03semanticfree]_,
+   [walfish03dns]_); example: hash-based (ref 
    ``hash`` URN namespace Internet-Draft; ref Freenet & others)
 
 .. Proposal: A location-independent Web (closest thing is Freenet (ref))
@@ -42,8 +42,13 @@
    (storage systems: CFS, PAST; web caching: Squirrel),
    but don't address the Web.
 
+.. The infrastructure behind CFS, PAST and Squirrel: Peer-to-Peer
+
+.. Quite recently, several Peer-to-Peer architectures have been
+   proposed that use hash-based, loc.ind. ids
+
 .. Possibility of desktop integration in ways that the location-dependent
-   Web cannot archieve, through the unique combination of
+   Web cannot archieve, through the novel combination of
    network transparency and location independence (ref ourselves).
 
 .. However, there's a problem with this: versioning -----
@@ -63,12 +68,14 @@
 ============
 
 - In this section, we summarize how existing
-  peer-to-peer systems deal with versioning.
+  peer-to-peer systems deal with versioning that use
+  hash-based ids.
 
+  
 - No updates:
 
-  - PAST
-  - Free Haven
+  - PAST [rowstron01storage]_
+  - Free Haven [dingledine00free]_
 
 - Centralized updates:
 
@@ -78,9 +85,9 @@
   
 - Network-level destructive updates:
 
-  - Freenet
+  - Freenet [freenet-ieee]_
   - SFR (apparently)
-  - CFS
+  - CFS [dabek01widearea]_
   
 - Conclusion: Doesn't provide the benefits of
   hash-based addressing; doesn't allow accessing
@@ -92,7 +99,7 @@
 
 - Basic model of underlying system: Only blocks
 - Benefits of that, in a nutshell
-- Reverse indexing (nicely provided through DHT)
+- Reverse indexing (nicely provided through DHT), *define* reverse indexing
 - Def.: Pointers are abstract references that *point*
   to different blocks (versions) over time
 - Storm is designed to be modular; different routing algorithms
@@ -171,3 +178,5 @@
 
 
 .. _TBL ref: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/NameMyth.html#What
+
+.. bibliography:: ../gzigzag