> > How do you see indexes > > relating to one another, and being uploaded by users? Some sort of web > > of trust? Or some sort of broadcast forum? > > With a specific index format, I think we can do the both: > > Broadcast forum: We can write in hard in the code address of a first root > index, containing child index addresses, themself containing index > addresses, etc. Like this, we would obtain an public indexes tree. > > Web of trust: We can let users create their own root index, and so, their > own indexes tree. > I discused with one of my friends about indexes management, and he suggested me a better solution:
One problem with my idea for the indexes is that someone can easily find all indexes of the main tree, and makes new empty revisions of all indexes, purging all the tree. His suggestion is, in some way, to do simply like Freenet web sites, or Frost boards, a web of trust: Each user creates his own files index and only him will be able to update it. Likewise, in his index, he will be able to add links to other indexes. But in addition to each files index, we can create an other index, this one, publicly writable, where everyone making a link to this files index can put the address of his own files index. Like this, owner of the first index will be aware of this links creation, and links exchange should go fast. After that, application will only have to grab link after link, and let user create his favorite indexes lists from it (or from a given address). -- Jerome Flesch.
