Hello Guix! mikadoZero <mikadoz...@yandex.com> writes:
> Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> ... >> Long-term archival is something that cannot be left to peer-to-peer >> networks: I disagree here: P2P/decentralized archival is a _resilient_ archival method and is _not_ in contrast with long-term: a group of users (including institutions at various levels) can decide that some or all of a "decentralized Software Heritage" archive deserves availability guarantees :-) [...] > 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. so maybe Software Heritage could have a decentralized storage model instead of a centralized one... but this have direct implications on what content swh can store (I mean non-free sofware) anyway decentralized storage (IPFS/gnu:net)is already in Guix radar, could be in swh radar too :-) "decentralized software heritage" could even be an interesting application on top secushare :-O thanks! Gio -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures
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