| ▲ | dingnuts a day ago | |
Even normal HTTP URLs aren't great. If there was ever a case for content-addressable networks like IPFS it's this. Universities should be able to host this data in a decentralized way. | ||
| ▲ | justin66 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
A DOI handle type of thing could certainly point to an IPFS address. I can't speak to how you'd do truly decentralized access to the DOI handle. At some point DNS is a thing and somebody needs to host the handle. | ||
| ▲ | nly a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |
CANs usually have complex hashy URLs, so you still have the compactness problem | ||