Various identifier choices Re: [p2p-hackers] Morpheus, Freenet,MojoNation (was Semantic Routing BOF)

[Gordon Mohr]

Coderman writes:
> Gordon Mohr wrote:

> > With Bitzi, we don't mind a proliferation of identifiers, because
> > we aim to provide, as metadata, alternate names/IDs for catalogued
> > files.
> > 
> > So for example you'll eventually be able to pull from the Bitzi
> > catalog a record like...
> > 
> >   Bitprint (SHA1+TigerTree)
> >   \_ Freenet-CHK
> >   \_ MojoID
> >   \_ MD5
> >   \_ etc. (KazaaID? SHA256?)
> > 
> > ...whenever users have contriibuted such associations.

> Regarding access to this data, would it be possible to implement some
> kind of lookup information to obtain all known metadata for a given
> SHA-1 key (or TigerTree, or MD5, etc)?
> 
> This would be very usefull, and would place a much smaller load than
> retreiving significant portions of the index...

That's exactly the first stable interface we'll offer. It'll 
functionally be something like:

   getTicket(SHA1 or Bitprint) 
    -> returns XML "ticket" of best known contributed info about 
       file with that hash (redundant/down-rated tags will not 
       be included)

- Gojomo