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December 03, 2001

(via decentralization) the uServ project

(via decentralization) the uServ project at IBM is a neat system to give transient content (files on peer machines) persistent location addresses (Web URLs).

One paragraph from their paper: guess the protocol they're talking about...
"This problem is not one unique to uServ, but also affects systems such as [...other stuff...]. As [...this standardised facility...] and services impacted by [it] become more common, we expect that operating system libraries, [...] servers and their configuration, and browser implementations will adapt by properly abiding by the [...] protocol."
And the protocol is: this (RFC1034, 1987!)