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Optimizing IPNS (#109)
Candidate Open Problem Mutable Data pubsub topic/libp2p
Kubuxu opened Feb 5, 2016
3 comments
Offline & Local IPNS (#391)

Motivation Users should be able to publish and resolve IPNS records when disconnected from the global network. This is important in two cases: 1. The user is trying to re-resolve content that has ...

kind/enhancement
Stebalien opened Sep 23, 2019
1 comment
IPNS Improvement Design Exploration (#260)
Candidate Open Problem Mutable Data
Stebalien opened Aug 31, 2017
Apps data under IPNS (#91)

To prevent possible clutches and make it still possible to use IPNS directly I propose that apps using IPNS should make one directory in the IPNS root and make it hidden (prefix it with .). This way ...

Kubuxu opened Dec 24, 2015
4 comments
idea: pin through ipns names (#97)
Candidate Dev RFP Pinning topic/libp2p
jbenet opened Jan 13, 2016
5 comments
Use crdt for the MFS? (#454)

... in the network where you provide the most recent version of a content (what actually an IPNS does). So they are very suppried when they create a folder for a friend share the CID with them and put a ...

need/triage
RubenKelevra opened Jun 15, 2022
6 comments
IPNS+IPFS as a NoSQL database (#70)

It would be quite nice if we could have a library that would emulate a NoSQL database. So in essence offering an abstraction of IPNS+IPFS through methods such as insert, update, remove and find. From ...

rethore opened Nov 20, 2015
13 comments
IPNS's many uses for apps (#69)
ghost opened Oct 28, 2015
Application updates over pubsub (#288)
pubsub topic/libp2p
victorb opened Mar 27, 2018
ipfs mount (#105)
hackergrrl opened Jan 30, 2016
5 comments
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