Backwards Compatibility

• HTTP
• Bittorrent
• IPFS
• ActivityPub

HTTP Servers

• Using existing HTTP servers as web-seed like things.
• Use codecs to indicate the format and metadata of existing files
• Use HTTP servers as backup mirrors that behave like peers, and how peers can indicate them as mirrors for a given container

BitTorrent

See BEP 52 - Bittorrent V2

IPFS

ActivityPub

• Mappings:
  • Container <-> feed