Re:An introduction to IPFS
by joepie91_ on Monday February 22, 2016 @04:31PM
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Yes, and that's the problem - because it cannot address many of the features required for dynamic content. I'm sure it works fine for static content, but that's the easy problem to solve (and it has been solved before).
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You're right, IPFS does not try to address dynamic content. I don't speak for the authors, but I think their opinion is that doing so is out of scope. I think they expect the application to represent each piece of mutable content as a Merkle DAG, and have the application acquire each user's written version of the content from IPFS, merge them, and announce the "latest" version under a new hash.