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4    - `Standing on the shoulders of giants`_: Webrotting example    - `Standing on the shoulders of giants`_: Webrotting example
5    - History of location-dependence: `TBL ref`_    - History of location-dependence: `TBL ref`_
   - Problems with location-depencence, other articles  
     recognizing these  
6    - Location-independent, semantic-free, *self-verifying*    - Location-independent, semantic-free, *self-verifying*
7      identifiers (ref SFR paper (Balakrishnan et.al. IPTPS'03),      identifiers (ref SFR paper (Balakrishnan et.al. IPTPS'03),
8      ref Walfish paper)      ref Walfish paper); example: hash-based (ref
9    - Benefits of hash-based addressing:      ``hash`` URN namespace Internet-Draft; ref Freenet & others)
10      - Proposal: A location-independent Web (closest thing is Freenet (ref))
11      - Benefits of hash-based addressing
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13      - Pages easily movable between servers      - Pages easily movable between servers
14      - Data accessible as long as anyone keeps a copy      - Data accessible as long as anyone keeps a copy
15      - Load balancing (download from everyone who has a copy)      - Load balancing (download from everyone who has a copy)
16      - Can use one addressing scheme with different protocols,      - Can use one addressing scheme with different protocols,
17        searching different networks for the content behind a hash        searching different networks for the content behind a hash
       (see the ``hash`` URN namespace proposal)  
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   - Closest thing to location-independent is actually, it seems, Freenet  
19    - SFR (semantic-free referencing) not all that close,    - SFR (semantic-free referencing) not all that close,
20      though semantic-free idea shared (SFR takes along      though semantic-free idea shared (SFR takes along
21      many problems of the Web)      many problems of the Web)

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