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CTAN has a central server. CPAN has a master site. What you're proposing has exactly the same deficiency as the npm repository: it is centralized and thus vulne
by ctanctan 11y ago
CTAN has a central server. CPAN has a master site. What you're proposing has exactly the same deficiency as the npm repository: it is centralized and thus vulnerable to takedown notices, "right to be forgotten", author deletion and similar shenanigans.
IPFS is distributed and has no such single point of failure (SPOF).
- danbruc 11y agoYou don't have to allow deletions or replicate them. I also see no reason one could not send out takedown notices to IPFS nodes, especially in the current situation with a pretty small system - I found a number of about 2000 nodes in January 2016.