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    Content Addressed Vocabulary -- DustyCloud Brainstorms decentralized-internet fediverse non-commerical-internet dustycloud.org
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      southerntofu avatar southerntofu 4 years ago | link

      TL;DR

      Protocol semantics (eg. ActivityStreams vocabulary) refer to namespaces by HTTP URIs. However these URIs can become unavailable or unreliable over time. Refering to specs by a hash of theirs allows for future-proof discovery and lessened ambiguity.