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

Topic		Replies	Views
Changing data in added content Help js-ipfs	4	1390	August 6, 2020
Protocol for arbitrary metadata? Help	3	552	May 23, 2017
History + Versioning of documents (IPFS/IPNS) Help	6	6058	June 22, 2017
IPFS for personal use: keeping track of "current version", discoverability, and IPFS file system	2	1287	March 15, 2018
Perceptual content identification in IPFS Help	3	710	May 23, 2017