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# 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](http://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0052.html)
## IPFS
## ActivityPub
- Mappings:
- Container <-> feed