ipfs suggests many research routes:
Paper with:
- design + discussion
- measurements in production
- SFS inspired decentralized name service
Lots of experimentation can be done with BitSwap:
- find (near) optimal swap strategies
- security
- efficiency
- robustness
- game theory (like propshare paper)
- other strategies/clients
- BitSwap with bittorrent?
a meta filesystem. One global filesystem. Allows mounting of other filesystems seamlessly. Users download FS code on demand. E.g.
/serfs/s3.amazon.com/<bucket>/
/serfs/bittorrent/<torrent hash>/<filename>
/serfs/http/<domain>/<path>
/serfs/memcached/<host>/<key>
/serfs/redis/<host>/<key>
/serfs/afs/<path>/
/serfs/facebook/<userid>
/serfs/gfs/<path>
/serfs/spotify/<track hash>
Blocks can include pure functions which generate the block's data. Creates an incentive to design better compression functions.
Blockchain currency with proof-of-retrievability. Incentivizes IPFS storage.
Spotify: modified client to just send all blocks asap, if user is allowed to.