As previously planned, my work these past few weeks has been on the organization that have adopted IPFS. These organizations tend to be smaller startups, though the services they provide are quite varied, ranging from an agricultural insurance marketplace, a supply chain documentation platform, to an open source voting system. What first attracted these organizations is the popularity of IPFS to its alternatives, and with that popularity came an array of different implementations in various languages, as well as extensive documentation and a community that was eager to help smooth over any compatibility issues. But more than that, IPFS is able to provide a functioning decentralized data storage that is addressed by content, rather than location, that is verifiably secure.
As described in my project proposal, originally I was going the cover both the analysis of IPFS and the future of content distribution, but now I believe I will not be able to include the future of content distribution as a topic, as I first have to read the papers that have already done some analysis of IPFS, and then I can concentrate my analysis on any possible issues they did not cover.
Going forward, I will be reading the papers that have done analysis on IPFS, summarizing their main idea, as well as their strengths and weaknesses. This hopefully should give me some ideas on how to get started on designing a reasonable scenario and metric for my analysis of IPFS.
Sources:
Omar Abdullah Lajam;Tarek Ahmed Helmy. “Performance Evaluation of IPFS in Private Networks”. 2021 4th International Conference on Data Storage and Data Engineering
Henningsen, Sebastian, et al. "Mapping the interplanetary filesystem." 2020 IFIP Networking Conference (Networking)