With some fairly minimal changes to HTTP it would be possible to get much of the benefit of bittorrent while keeping the general principals of HTTP: https://rw

With some fairly minimal changes to HTTP it would be possible to get much of the benefit of bittorrent while keeping the general principals of HTTP: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/half-baked-idea-content-addressable-web-proxy/ https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/half-baked-idea-conten... But yes I do think Bittorrent would be ideal for OSM here.