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Re:NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction by NickBusey on Thursday May 24, 2018 @11:45AM (#17145122)
This is literally what IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) http://ipfs.io/ was created to solve.
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Re:NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction by alex_duf on Thursday May 24, 2018 @12:36PM (#17145715)
Without knowing I would assume IPFS is built on TCP, wouldn't that be an issue?
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Re:NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction by lgierth on Saturday May 26, 2018 @06:32PM (#17164581)
More transports coming! IPFS is built on libp2p, and so far all available libp2p transports have been stream-oriented (TCP, Websockets, WebRTC, Onion, QUIC), but different types of transports are in the works: packet-oriented (UDP, Ethernet, WebRTC-unreliable) and store-and-forward.

Apart from that IPFS is built and layered in a way that makes the application layer independent of transport semantics - the network in terms of connections and hosts is abstracted away.

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Re:NASA is bringing cryosleep chambers out of fiction by carry_bit on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:30PM (#17148109)
It's built on a generic interface so other protocols could be used.
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