Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium

4:30 PM, Wednesday, October 21, 2015
NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building Room B3
Stanford University
http://ee380.stanford.edu

IPFS: The Distributed, Permanent Web
or
how I learned to stop worrying and love the Merkle Web.

Juan Benet
Protocol Labs
About the talk:

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a new hypermedia distribution protocol, to complement--and eventually replace--HTTP. It improves the security, performance, operation modes, and data friendliness of the Web. In particular, it yields a powerful new model, where websites and web applications are decoupled from origin servers, are distributed trustlessly through the network, and are encrypted, authenticated, and executed safely.

Important properties include:

This talk will cover:
  1. the major problems plaguing today's web,
  2. the architecture of IPFS (how it fits in the network stack, how it is deployed, how the problems are solved)
  3. powerful new models for the web (distributed, offline-first, authenticated)
  4. examples of important use cases (package managers, OSes, archives)
  5. a discussion on open source protocol R & D
  6. future research, development, and deployment directions
The talk will include a broad look at The IPFS Project, and a discussion on evolving the network stack through open source protocols R & D.

Today, IPFS is classified as alpha software, yet it is robust enough to be in use even in production.

Most notable related work includes: SFS, BitTorrent, Git, Bitcoin, CCNx/NDN, GNUnet, Freenet, Tahoe-LAFS.

Slides:

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About the speaker:

[speaker photo] Juan Benet created IPFS, Filecoin, and other protocols. He is the founder of Protocol Labs, a company improving how the internet works. He studied Computer Science (Distributed Systems) at Stanford. You can reach him by email at juan@ipfs.io.

Contact information:

Juan Benet
Protocol Labs
juan@ipfs.io
https://ipfs.io