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A toolkit for building distributed applications
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IPNS support? #904

Closed vegabook closed 1 year ago

vegabook commented 1 year ago

My use case is live, streaming time series data which will be aggregated into chunks of various resolutions (minute, hour, day).

In other words, every minute, a new file is created. It is added to the set of all previous minute files. The entire set has a single addressable name that does not change, even though the set is being added to constantly.

Does iroh support IPNS in order to make this use case possible? If not, is there another way to support this use case using iroh? It is not clear to me from the documentation whether or not collections can be appended to without changing the collection root CID.

I further note the ability to seek into a blob. Perhaps this would allow for continuously growing data, avoiding the need for minute/hour/day segmentation? I'm assuming this would violate the content-based addressing?

Posting as issue as I see no links to forums on docs or github.

Winterhuman commented 1 year ago

Based on https://github.com/n0-computer/iroh/discussions/707#discussioncomment-5070226, I don't think they're looking into an IPNS-like system for Iroh, at least not in the near term

vegabook commented 1 year ago

Based on #707 (reply in thread), I don't think they're looking into an IPNS-like system for Iroh, at least not in the near term

Thanks for that interesting. Yeah IPNS per se I don't have an opinion. Just how do I get to permanently name a growing set of independently immutable objects.

flub commented 1 year ago

I wouldn't say we won't be going anything IPNS-like. There is a need to be able to refer to a collection by name. But we don't yet know what form this will take.