project status?

[dawuud]

> Well, maybe.  I saw the activity on github, but nothing on the list from
> Zooko or any of the other key people - which kind of gave me pause.

Sometimes life brings other responsibilities like being the CEO of Zcash.

> It seems to be the ONLY dispersed file system that's stood the test of time,
> but I'm kind of interested in how it might work at "Internet scale" -
> anything about the largest installations, usage, etc.  As well as
> measurements/modeling that might talk about bandwidth and cpu requirements
> as a function of users/files/etc.

There's lots additional design work needed to make Tahoe-LAFS scale up
to huge Internet scale.

> CrashPlan is pretty much the best of the commercial backup services around. 

Yes, perhaps but I don't agree that commercial software should be
taken seriously because of lack of peer review. This point is
especially important for crypto and security software.

> There have been things like it before.  The ARPANET had the Datacomputer. 
> Oceanstore & Publius were nice experimental storage networks that were
> secure, dispersed, and persistent - but, without a financial model that

These are remarkably old systems which probably didn't make much use of cryptography
and in that context the term secure probably only meant access control instead of
"file shares are encrypted, attackers need key material to break confidentiality".

> supported ongoing operations. Seems like time to make another stab at it. 
> The business model is that hard part (think about building a federated
> ecosystem for a new protocol, and how to pay for it) - it's only been done a
> few times - email, the web, DNS, USENET.

ahh usenet, it's been a long time since I used usenet!


cheers!
david
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