Thanks very much to Christian and John for writing a much needed detailed article :)

Some more links for people to check out:

## (upcoming) IPLD "merkleized JSON" format:

- improves upon our basic format to make it much more pleasant to build things on top of ipfs.

- JSON meets CBOR meets Merkle-linking

- mini-spec: https://github.com/ipfs/specs/blob/master/merkledag/ipld.md

## answers to some common questions i've read on this page:

- content model / replication: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/47

- how resolution works: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/48#issuecomment-152917088

- how IPNS / mutable linking works: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/16

- this is a very poor answer, sorry, i'll write up a post or paper on it.

- for now if interested, see the QConf slides below, specifically slides ~110 to ~130 -- the DNS, IPRS, SFS/Mazieres linking, IPNS parts.

## These repos have interesting "lab notebook" style discussions:

- https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues

- https://github.com/ipfs/apps/issues

## deep dive talk at stanford:

- video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUVmypx9HGI

- slides: lmk if you want them, i'll pdf them up

## talk at ethereum's devcon1 covering blockchain uses

- video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewpIi1y_KDc

- slides (interesting bits start at slide ~70): https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmUgRq7QfmRbPw5kXqwSs1TRtPDBXMoDNiYwJQg...

## talk at qconf sf (similar to above)

- in this talk i discuss a bunch of datastructure stuff, including using IPFS for PKI, for arbitrary dns-like records, for name systems, for CRDTs, and so on.

- unfort video will be released in march: https://qconsf.com/video-schedule

- slides (intersting bits starts at slide 80): https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmPpYmdSEKspjgXxVyGK9UMHV54fKZS8MwJjppg...