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RFC Request: "Arbitrary" / Supplimental Files in a Dataset #39

Open b5 opened 5 years ago

b5 commented 5 years ago

We've come across a number of cases where we need to embed "external" / referenced files in Dataset DAGs. The two most common ones I hear from others:

I come across this all the time, we should probably start specing out how this would work. I think this conversation should coincide with an IPLD switch conversation, which is blocked on IPLD spec settling, but it can't hurt to start thinking about how this might work.

dustmop commented 5 years ago

Another suggestion for what to name this: "attachments".