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IPIP-342: Ambient Discovery of Content Routers #342

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Co-authored-by: Gus Eggert <gus@gus.dev>
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willscott and guseggert authored Nov 30, 2022
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The mechanism proposed by this IPIP, where nodes gossip preferred routers
to their connected peers, can also have broader applications. The same
mechnism could be used for external IPNS, peer routers, relays, or DNS
mechanism could be used for external IPNS, peer routers, relays, or DNS
resolvers. We point out the label allowing re-use of this mechanism for
other systems in the (protocol design)[#1-content-routing-as-a-libp2p-protocol],
but otherwise leave the concerete design for other systems to subsequent
but otherwise leave the concrete design for other systems to subsequent
IPIPs.

## Motivation

There is currently not a process by which IPFS nodes can discover alernative
content routing systems automatically. This has led to a reliance on
centralized systems, like the hydra boosters, to fill the gap and offer
content only available in network indexer to current IPFS nodes. This strategy
content only available in network indexers to current IPFS nodes. This strategy
is also insufficient long term because:
1. It limits speed to the use of a globally distributed kademlia DHT
2. It is insufficient for providing content in applications where content grows
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