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It is my hope that one day, we'll use IPFS and other similar tools to enable our apps to work effectively in mixed-connectivity environments.

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Imagine a future version of IPFS that can recognize partitions and form sub-networks within an isolated network. Then, there's no difference between offline, isolated network, and public mode except for connectivity, and the way to import data is to have your inner nodes pin it!

I really like this idea. Would improve the user-visible quality of wireless mesh networks where latency can be high.

I think the challenge to it is that DHT structures right now are not themselves commutative. We need a CRDT foundation for DHTs, themselves!

And one that has an asymptotic algorithmic complexity bounded near O(N^2) or less to handle the massive workloads these things can see.

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