From: pinoaffe <pinoaffe@gmail.com>
To: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:17:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87il1f365y.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ttkzpqqm.fsf@xelera.eu>
Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu> writes:
> [...]
> pinoaffe <pinoaffe@gmail.com> writes:
>> - should examine possible workarounds going forward,
>> - should move towards something like UUIDs and petnames in the long run.
>>
>> (see https://spritelyproject.org/news/petname-systems.html).
>
> I don't understand how using petnames, uuids or even a re:claimID
> identity (see below) could solve the problem with "rewriting history" in
> case a person wishes to change his or her previous _published_ name
> (petname, uuid...) in an archived content-addressable storage system.
It would decouple "name" from "identity as represented in the git merkle
tree", thus allowing name changes to occur without affecting hashes and
the like. I see no possible reason for UUID changes, as UUIDs (by
themself) are not personally identifying. This of course would not
allow retroactive splitting/merging of identities, but I feel like
permitting that is incompatible with the idea of identities anyhow.
> As a side note, other than the "petname system" please also consider
> re:claimID from GNUnet:
> https://www.gnunet.org/en/reclaim/index.html
> https://www.gnunet.org/en/reclaim/motivation.html
Sure, I'll take a look
kind regards,
pinoaffe
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2024-03-17 9:39 ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2024-03-17 9:47 ` MSavoritias
2024-03-17 11:53 ` paul
2024-03-17 11:57 ` MSavoritias
2024-03-17 14:57 ` Richard Sent
2024-03-17 16:28 ` Ian Eure
2024-03-17 12:51 ` Tomas Volf
2024-03-17 23:56 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-03-20 15:25 ` contributor uuid (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive) bae66428a8ad58eafaa98cb0ab2e512f045974ecf4bf947e32096fae574d99c6
2024-03-17 16:20 ` Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive Ian Eure
2024-03-17 16:55 ` MSavoritias
2024-03-18 14:04 ` pinoaffe
2024-03-17 13:03 ` Olivier Dion
2024-03-17 17:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-03-20 17:22 ` the right to rewrite history to rectify the past (was Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive) Giovanni Biscuolo
2024-03-21 6:12 ` MSavoritias
2024-03-21 10:49 ` Attila Lendvai
2024-03-21 11:51 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2024-03-21 11:52 ` pinoaffe
2024-03-21 15:08 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2024-03-21 15:11 ` MSavoritias
2024-03-21 22:11 ` Philip McGrath
2024-03-21 16:17 ` pinoaffe [this message]
2024-03-21 15:23 ` Hartmut Goebel
2024-03-21 15:27 ` MSavoritias
2024-03-21 15:54 ` Ekaitz Zarraga
2024-03-22 4:33 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-03-21 16:18 ` Efraim Flashner
2024-03-21 16:23 ` pinoaffe
2024-03-18 9:28 ` Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive Simon Tournier
2024-03-18 11:47 ` MSavoritias
2024-03-18 13:12 ` Simon Tournier
2024-03-18 14:00 ` MSavoritias
2024-03-18 14:32 ` Simon Tournier
2024-03-18 16:27 ` Kaelyn
2024-03-18 17:39 ` Daniel Littlewood
2024-03-18 20:38 ` Olivier Dion
2024-03-18 19:38 ` Ian Eure
2024-03-18 22:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-03-19 10:58 ` Simon Tournier
2024-03-19 15:37 ` Ian Eure
2024-03-18 11:14 ` Content-Addressed system and history? Simon Tournier
2024-04-20 18:48 ` Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive Ian Eure
2024-05-01 15:29 ` Ian Eure
2024-05-01 15:41 ` Tomas Volf
2024-05-02 10:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
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