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Inter-Planetary Name System (IPNS)

IPNS is a system for creating and updating mutable links to IPFS content. Since objects in IPFS are content-addressed, their address changes every time their content does.

A "name" in IPNS (example: /ipns/website.ipfs.io) points to the hash of a public key, which does not change itself, but can change what it references. Allowing for dynamic references (/ipns/website.ipfs.io), to static content (=> /ipfs/QmPs9QHQvCPh758V3rFXGByJMS8Scu5YzBYTEkpnCKUxAL).

Goal

Use whatever resources available to you, in order to come up with a visual representation of the topic that can be projected on to a poster (similar in spirit to the poster description but with whatever creative freedom your group prefers :^)

Questions to Answer

  • How does it interact with an IPFS node's keystore?
  • How are references resolved?
  • How does it compare with other dynamic data systems?
  • What problem does IPNS solve?

Where to learn about it

https://docs.ipfs.io/guides/concepts/ipns/