Following this question by @MarkusTeufelberger I would suggest to consider to deprecate the built-in mechanism for metadata in favour of standard RFC 5854 (Metalink). I would suggest to add an additional hash function which would be utilized only for singular files, and consequently allow the util…

IPNS is the solution. IPNS (InterPlanetary Name System) | IPFS Docs IPNS conceptually is comparable to a pointer pointing to an IPFS CID. Republish your IPNS and the same IPNS CID now points to a different IPFS CID. It’s use does have a couple downsides though. Like publishing could take seriously…

[image] markg85: Question: What do you mean by “metadata”? A property which is responsible for listing of subject files. I do not know how it is realized in IPFS. As an example, in BitTorrent, the Torrent file is a metadata file, which lists subject files. [image] markg85: Could you li…

So you propose to deprecate the metadata when you don’t even know what it is or even if IPFS has it… If you want to be taken seriously, this isn’t the way. You should look up the Merkle-DAG, IPLD and UnixFS. It’s up to you to find those in the docs and read up on what it all is. Hint: there are …

I am still reading the documentations of Merkle-DAG, IPLD and UnixFS. Yet, by reading about CID versions and particularly CID v1, which, even when it indexes a single file, will always be different than the particular file which it represents. Hence, My proposal to include an additional (title has…

MD5 (and Metalink) in addition to CID1 (built-in metadata)

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MD5 (and Metalink) in addition to CID1 (built-in metadata)

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