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From: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Using IPFS to host mirrors of source packages
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 17:33:11 +0200
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To: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
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Pjotr Prins writes:

> By hosting source packages on IPFS they become content addressable and
> should scale for downloads. It would also become a safe way of
> distributing data. 
>
> https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs
>
> Essentially the interplanetary file system allows for distributed
> storage servers and a distributed DNS style resolution for finding
> files. It allows people to share storage and by pooling storage we
> can provide resilient access to all source packages. Especially the
> ones that prove dodgy now.
>
> This should be fairly trivial to implement as long as some of us can
> commit some storage. We could use the build farm. 
>
> Next we can do the same for binary Guix packages. It would make for
> way faster downloads when the Guix-deamon supports the protocol.
>
> Can we look into this? Who of us can host IPFS and expose port 4001? I
> can put in some.

I would be willing to dedicate (part of the) resources on a UK based
(small) VPS for an initiative of this type (doesn't necessarily have to
be IPFS, but this sounds good so far :-) ).

Best wishes,

Alex