===== InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) =====
[[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.b_stds:defact| return to the de facto Standards area]]

**Source:** [[https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs/blob/master/papers/ipfs-cap2pfs/ipfs-p2p-file-system.pdf | The following is from the white paper IPFS - Content Addressed, Versioned, P2P File System ]]

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<caption>Data Sheet for InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).
</caption>
^   Characteristic      ^   Value                                     ^
| Original author(s)	| Juan Benet and Protocol Labs                |
| Developer(s)	        | [[https://protocol.ai/| Protocol Labs]]     |
| Initial release	| 24 July 2014                                |
| Stable release	| 0.4.19 / 1 March 2019                       |
| Repository	        | [[https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs]]            |
| Written in	        | Protocol implementations: Go (reference implementation), [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:j:javascript|JavaScript]], C,[1] Python Client libraries: Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, Scala, Haskell, Swift, Common [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:l:lisp]], Rust, Ruby, PHP, C#, Erlang |
| Operating system	| FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows             |
| Available in	        | English                                     |
| Type	                | Protocol, distributed file system, content delivery network |
| License	        | MIT license                           | 
| Website	        | [[https://ipfs.io/ ]]                       |
</table>

==== Abstract ====
  : //The [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:i:ipfs]] is a peer-to-peer distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files. In some ways, IPFS is similar to the Web, but IPFS could be seen as a single BitTorrent swarm, exchanging objects within one Git repository. In other words, IPFS provides a high [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:t:thruput|throughput]] content-addressed block storage model, with content addressed hyper links. This forms a generalized Merkle DAG, a [[dido:public:ra:xapend:xapend.a_glossary:d:datastructure|data structure]] upon which one can build versioned file systems, blockchains, and even a Permanent Web. IPFS combines a distributed hashtable, an incentivized block exchange, and a self-certifying namespace. IPFS has no single point of failure, and nodes do not need to trust each other.((
"IPFS - Content Addressed, Versioned, P2P File System (DRAFT 3)", Juan Denet, 24 July 2014,
[[https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs/blob/master/papers/ipfs-cap2pfs/ipfs-p2p-file-system.pdf]]
))//

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