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0 pointsCommanderData11d ago0 comments

Is content discovery on the official roadmap? If the original peer say peer A goes offline but B downloaded $X, can see find B and download, validate the content today?

Sorry if this has been answered or covered on the web I'm currently travelling.

Edit: I managed to read the linked page, thank you for working on such an amazing project!

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rklaehn10d ago· 2 in thread

We don't have the post 1.0 roadmap very fleshed out at this point. The team has been extremely focused on getting 1.0 out of the door for the last year. This took longer than expected, as expected :-)

But I can say that some form of global content discovery is in my personal definition of done for the project. I'm the BLAKE3 guy at n0, and I don't consider blobs done without global content discovery.

But it is a hard problem, and our standards for "it just works" are pretty high.

CommanderDataOP10d ago

Excellent I look forward to it, I like Iroh objective of keeping it's footprint small enough to run on low powered devices. IPFS in my experience is very heavy.

If my understanding is right, content discovery can't happen on the existing mainline DHT which is a shame. Maybe once you have enough traction you can propose a standards change? DHT mainline today is amazing because of its network size.

rklaehn9d ago

There is this https://github.com/bittorrent/bittorrent.org/pull/174

We would love this to gain more traction so we can use mainline also for content discovery. But we have to be realistic: mainline moves slowly, and for good reasons.

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