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Abstract
This document is largely incomplete.
- Introduction
- The precarious web
- Link competition and link rot
- The addressing rift
- DWeb Addressing
- Namespaces
- /ipfs -- immutable data
- /ipns -- mutable pointers
- Addressing data from other content-addressed systems
- Network addressing
- Interoperability
- DWeb Addressing with HTTP
- ipfs:// and ipns:// URL schemes
- dweb: URI scheme
- Content Security Policy / Origins
- Appendix
- DWeb Maturity Model
- FAQ
- Implementations
- Future Work
- Related work
Location-based addressing is a centralizing vector on the web. It lets links rot and drives copies of content into mutual competition.
This document describes a content-based addressing model which provides permanent links that don't rot and are cryptographically verifiable. The result is a more cooperative, resilient, and performant web.