Ask any non-technical person whether they've ever been bitten by link-rot! :) Content-addressing doesn't alleviate the problem 100%, since content can still fa

Ask any non-technical person whether they've ever been bitten by link-rot! :) Content-addressing doesn't alleviate the problem 100%, since content can still fall off the network - but it improves the structure of the network in a way that makes it tremendously easier to keep content around. It's not up the original source of the content (owner of the domain name) to keep the content around - anyone can help out by keeping a copy. My colleague Matt addressed this beautifully in a recent talk at the NSDR Symposium: https://archive.org/download/ndsr-dc-2017/04_Speaker_3_Matt_Zumwalt.mp4 https://archive.org/download/ndsr-dc-2017/04_Speaker_3_Matt_...