Re: Lightning talk at IPFS camp

[Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>]

Am 03.06.19 um 18:19 schrieb Pronaip:

>> -   All data comes with provenance tracking:
>>      -   computations are tracked via Guix
>>      -   human input is logged (interactivity) or version controlled
> 
> unless you vision of the distant future somehow also includes most social problems having been solved, these would be ripe for abuse by malicious actors.

I didn't say that provenance information should be made public, even if 
the data itself is. It could well be encrypted. More generally, 
encryption is an essential ingredient for dealing with non-public data 
in IPFS. Which is indeed a weak point considering that you never know 
for how long encryption will be safe.

> Not having any local file system is also just plain wasteful.

Note that I said file system, not storage. There should be local storage 
for efficiency, but it would act like a cache, not as a separately 
managed storage space.

BTW, data management is not really part of IPFS at all, it needs to be 
handled by another layer and so far there is little more than 
experiments. Textile looks promising, for example.

Konrad.