Networking for Democratization of Data Ownership

Abstract

Web3, decentralized web, is one of the buzz words brought up in the field of IT business as well as IT technology. Data ownership is supposed to be democratized by Web3, which means data is kept at its owner and the availability of the data is controlled and managed by the owner in the world of Web3. One of the mechanisms providing democratization of data ownership is InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) which leaves data as well as its meta data at its owner and only pointers to data are distributed over the network for data sharing. This paper discusses network layer support for IPFS to improve its performance. In particular, we propose to use Information Centric Networking as the network layer of IPFS to speed up data search in IPFS.