Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space

Re:Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space by blamestross on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @09:31AM (#39013610)

Well the caching aspect of IPFS is useful for space, the transport protocols are way too chatty and latency sensitive for real usage.

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Re:Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space by rudolph9 on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @09:40AM (#39013721)

The beauty of ipfs is the transport protocols are completely modular. They do a pretty good job supporting a lot of variety a separating concerns via https://github.com/libp2p/specs

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Re:Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space by Sanzig on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @10:07AM (#39014050)

Has anyone tried implementing IPFS on top of Licklider or another DTN protocol? Seems to me that's pretty much essential for any "interplanetary" setup.

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Re:Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space by m3kw9 on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @10:41AM (#39014520)

The beauty of ipfs has been there since 6 years back and it’s almost completely uselses

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Re:Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space by Jorropo on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @10:58AM (#39014802)

The too chatty protocol is bitswap. Because the merkle-tree is not coupled to the protocol, they developped their own custom protocol on top of UDP for communication.

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Re:Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space by otbutz on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @10:11AM (#39014099)

Isn't the QUIC transport the default since v0.6.0? Compared to TCP, it's much better suited for satellite communications.

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Re:Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space by foobiekr on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @11:07AM (#39014933)

Quic is not suited for satellite communications. There are good custom protocols though that are FEC heavy.

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