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The Distributed Web
5 points by brownbat on Feb 19, 2012 | hide | past | favorite
Tribler (content search through peers) and magnet links (resource locator using content description rather than location) have provided interesting steps forward in the decentralized p2p infrastructure.

Would it be possible/useful/hazardous to apply similar moves to the web?

Maybe magnet links would kill dynamic or updated content, but maybe there are trivial technical solutions to that... I don't know.

More broadly, is the web falling dangerously behind in new resiliency innovations? Is the P2P infrastructure, due to environmental pressure, now more reliable than other parts of the Internet?



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