Open mitar opened 8 years ago
Agree.. There is some misinformation going around based on the paper, which might have significant PR (not pull requests :)) issues.. and may cause issues with adoption..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12809259
https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/4083#issuecomment-316561782
In the current draft of the paper, it is written:
When I read that I got concerned about legal issues of just blindly and automatically downloading content from peers. In https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/47 I then read design goals and answer to "but bitswap says it may download stuff for others, to do better?" which is a good read.
I would suggest that both design goals and those questions and answers in some form are added to the paper. Design goals somewhere early on.