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Extension and format name #1

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wking opened this issue May 5, 2015 · 1 comment
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Extension and format name #1

wking opened this issue May 5, 2015 · 1 comment

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wking commented May 5, 2015

Previous suggestions from ipfs/kubo#1195:

Merkle-ness:

  • dar for merkleDag ARchive (clashes with Disk ARchive)
  • mar for Merkle(dag) ARchive
  • kar for merKledag ARchive

IPFS-ness:

  • ipo for InterPlanetaryObjects

Self-certifying-ness:

  • aar for Authenticated ARchive (pirates!)
  • car for Certified ARchive
  • sar for Secure ARchive
  • yar for ______ ARchive

Other:

  • oar for Object ARchive or Oort Archive
  • ship for shipping things around (interplanetary travel?)

The main considerations from ipfs/kubo#1195 are:

  • We'd rather not conflict with existing tools, but we can if we decide the conflict is worth it.
  • Hard consonant sounds are popular.
  • We'd like a strong connection to the IPFS-ness and/or the archive-ness.

I'm personally not interested in the self-certifying connection, because I want this to be a generic IPFS-object archive, and you need signature and public-key objects to be self-certifying.

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rht commented Sep 2, 2015

One more for "merkle"ness: .mag

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