On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 6:50 PM, James A. Donald <[email protected]> wrote:

> Another problem with bittorrent is that it has no means to search for
> human meaningful terms.  For search to work, peers need an incentive to
> provide useful and truthful metadata about data.
>

I don't think this is a problem. There are many people who enjoy curating
content who are obsessive sticklers for bad metadata. The problem is giving
these sort of people exclusive access to curating the content and
eliminating access from random yokels.

I think a capability system is a great way to accomplish this and has been
the main focus of my development efforts so far and I can thank Tahoe
completely for the idea. Obsessively meticulous content curators can build
whatever content libraries they want and have exclusive access to managing
their contents.

I'm shooting for a 1:1 mapping to git's data model, so the potential exists
for a translation layer that would allow people to use git-related tools to
manage the repositories, complete with all the content curation potential
that git-style workflows would bring to the table. I'm pretty excited about
the work I've seen in git annex and the potential for other programs to tap
into the git ecosystem.

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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