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This is literally what IPFS (InterPlanetary File System) http://ipfs.io/ was created to solve.



Without knowing I would assume IPFS is built on TCP, wouldn't that be an issue?


More transports coming! IPFS is built on libp2p, and so far all available libp2p transports have been stream-oriented (TCP, Websockets, WebRTC, Onion, QUIC), but different types of transports are in the works: packet-oriented (UDP, Ethernet, WebRTC-unreliable) and store-and-forward.

Apart from that IPFS is built and layered in a way that makes the application layer independent of transport semantics - the network in terms of connections and hosts is abstracted away.


It's built on a generic interface so other protocols could be used.




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