>>>> (b) how we make a very large
>>>> quantity of data available.
>>>
>>> Bittorrent with all mirrors.
>> 
>> Problem with that is updates, you'd only want to update it on a 
>> bi-weekly or monthly basis to avoid the constantly changing dataset.
>
> Let the trackers just update the torrent file contents :) That will 
> allow to have different torrent file distribution, while the contents is 
> shared over the different updates.

Are completed seeds rescraped?  I'm not sure it will start to download a 
torrent that is already completed if the scrape fails... On the other hand, how 
about gittorrent?
http://code.google.com/p/gittorrent/


      

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