IPFS can discover other nodes in the same local network via mDNS -- you don't need to have an internet connection at all to share data locally. Combine this wi

IPFS can discover other nodes in the same local network via mDNS -- you don't need to have an internet connection at all to share data locally. Combine this with the recent work on PubSub [1] and CRDTs [2] and you can make many applications work locally, that are otherwise annoyingly strongly coupled to internet services (thing Etherpad, Google Docs, Skype, Github, etc.) > For a truly distributed network we should look into ways to make internet work more like a mesh. Yes! We'll be putting more work into the network stack (libp2p) in the coming months. IPFS itself has done a ton to rework how content is defined and moved around, and libp2p will do the same for the network connections underneath. Think overlay networks, cryptokey routing, packet switching. [1] https://ipfs.io/blog/29-js-ipfs-pubsub/ https://ipfs.io/blog/29-js-ipfs-pubsub/ [2] https://ipfs.io/blog/30-js-ipfs-crdts.md https://ipfs.io/blog/30-js-ipfs-crdts.md