Re: Standards (was Back to Merkle Hash Trees...)

"Konstantin 'Kosta' Welke" <[email protected]> Wed, 09 Feb 2005 20:55:47 -0000

Newsgroups	gmane.network.bit-torrent.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 14:29:49 +0100, Olaf van der Spek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Justin Cormack wrote:

>>> I consider an URL easier to pass around then a (text) file.
>> A URL is a small text file. If we can make the .torrent small enough it can
>> fit in the url.
> No, an URL is a small text. It's not a file.

Yeah, its a concatenation of a subset of ASCII that gets stored in some sort
of memory. Your xbtp:// approach looks pretty promising, IMHO.

Kosta


 
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