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…

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

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5 posts were split to a new topic: IPNS over DHT and PubSub

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How is IPFS different than early 2000 P2P systems? IPFS multihash , kademlia , g1	1	28	December 24, 2024
Is there a way to communicate that 2 different addresses point to the same object? Old FAQ	2	415	December 24, 2024
How can I update metadata after uploading on IPFS	11	3293	February 11, 2022
Do you group content hashes like IP addresses? Help	1	526	March 22, 2018
Sharing protocol (not IPFS)	20	1261	April 28, 2020