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13  Abstract  Abstract
14  ========  ========
15    
16    - The Web should keep previous versions as long as someone
17      is interested, even if the original publisher has lost interest
18    - File sharing systems kind of do that
19    - But you can't update files in them
20    - P2P systems that do support updating don't support
21      this notion of permanence
22    - We present a simple model that *does* do it
23    - We present an even simpler model that it could be
24      implemented upon; the simpler model maps directly
25      to many current p2p systems
26    - It can thus use different P2P networks as backends,
27      and could thus become a agreed-upon way to do
28      versioning (we believe that the current systems,
29      which require state to be kept in *one* of the networks
30      really can not)
31    
32  The Web could benefit greatly from the bandwith savings,  The Web could benefit greatly from the bandwith savings,
33  increased availability, and reduced server costs offered  increased availability, and reduced server costs offered
34  by filesharing systems.  by filesharing systems.

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