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Addressing on the Decentralized Web

Note

This is an incomplete work-in-progress document from the early days of IPFS. For current addressing specifications, please refer to https://specs.ipfs.tech/

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Abstract

This document is largely incomplete.

Table of contents:

  • Introduction
  • The precarious web
    • Link competition and link rot
    • The addressing rift
  • DWeb Addressing
  • Namespaces
    • /ipfs -- immutable data
    • /ipns -- mutable pointers
    • Addressing data from other content-addressed systems
    • Network addressing
  • Interoperability
    • DWeb Addressing with HTTP
    • ipfs:// and ipns:// URL schemes
    • dweb: URI scheme
    • Content Security Policy / Origins
  • Appendix
    • DWeb Maturity Model
    • FAQ
    • Implementations
    • Future Work
    • Related work

Introduction

Location-based addressing is a centralizing vector on the web. It lets links rot and drives copies of content into mutual competition.

This document describes a content-based addressing model which provides permanent links that don't rot and are cryptographically verifiable. The result is a more cooperative, resilient, and performant web.