IPFS Thing: Intro to WebNative File System
Brooklyn Zelenka, Philipp Kruger,
Fission,
Sept 14, 2022
This short article and video introduces the WebNative File System (WNFS), an effort to enable users "to be able to search for, select, and open files within the browser itself" in order to help "build Web3 native apps." The difficulty is that the browser is a 'hostile environment' in the sense that it is difficult to secure. This proposal builds on directed acyclical graphs (DAG) and the interplanetary file system (IPFS) to propose an approach. There's a lot of good thinking here, with the key (I think) being the way temporal structures and key structures can be understood as DAGs (presented elegantly as shape-shifting graphs in the video). There is a much more detailed presentation here along with a white paper and code on GitHub. If you're interested in this you'll be interested in other sessions from the IPFS þing (pronounched 'thing') conference from last July. Via Boris Mann.
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