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Ask HN: How does IPFS help the interplanetary Internet of the future?
2 by DavidPiper | 1 comments on Hacker News.
IPFS (Interplanetary File System) is marketed as a New Internet: an HTTP replacement. Content hashing, deduplication, data resilience/permanence, and P2P content downloads/uploads are all excellent features, and IPNS is a layer on top that gives the system a more human interface. However to me this feature set makes IPFS sounds like a supercharged CDN, rather than a new kind of Internet. If we're going to set up a lunar base, or start a civilisation on Mars, is IPFS actually going to make connecting them to the Internet easier? (Assuming connecting the networks of the Moon, Mars and Earth is something we want to do.) Is it going to improve our/their experience of the Internet? How well does IPFS actually solve (or help solve) the problems of connecting and maintaining an Internet distributed across huge amounts of open space?

IPFS (Interplanetary File System) is marketed as a New Internet: an HTTP replacement. Content hashing, deduplication, data resilience/permanence, and P2P content downloads/uploads are all excellent features, and IPNS is a layer on top that gives the system a more human interface. However to me this feature set makes IPFS sounds like a supercharged CDN, rather than a new kind of Internet. If we're going to set up a lunar base, or start a civilisation on Mars, is IPFS actually going to make connecting them to the Internet easier? (Assuming connecting the networks of the Moon, Mars and Earth is something we want to do.) Is it going to improve our/their experience of the Internet? How well does IPFS actually solve (or help solve) the problems of connecting and maintaining an Internet distributed across huge amounts of open space?