Ludovic Courtès writes:
> ... > Long-term archival is something that cannot be left to peer-to-peer > networks: it’s something where you want availability guarantee, whereas > peer-to-peer storage networks usually replicate content that’s popular, > while unpopular content disappears. > ... As IPFS is already being discussed on the Guix mailing list I looked into it as an example of how it deals with this "availability guarantee". There is a relevant section in their documentation on pinning services which seems to address this directly: https://docs.ipfs.io/guides/concepts/pinning So maybe peer to peer data storage networks can do long-term archival. I am just using IPFS as an example there are alternatives to it.
