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stands for Transfer Protocol.

Yet, since decades, it's not anymore a protocol optimized for HyperText transfer.

Now, what if we wanted to design a protocol REALLY optimized for such goal?

We could design it from scratch for high bandwidth high latency network, maybe over something like BitTorrent, sharing signed but mostly unencrypted and cacheable contents and occasionally encrypted ones. Always static: browseable but not interactive, yet easy enough to self-host to allow social conversation through additive creation of new contents into such Web.

But how to name such protocol?

HTTP has been taken and corrupted. 😒

@Shamar @jvalleroy IPFS doesn't run on blockchain, there's just an optional "incentive" layer and they really push forward Filecoin. Actually I think IPFS is closest to the goal of a global, immutable, P2P filesystem (at least in ambition).

But also check out hypercore-protocol.org/ coming from the Dat project.

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