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Linking Policies for the Permanent Web
Conference paper

Linking Policies for the Permanent Web

Patrick Le, Quang Bui, Alexander Grigorian, Alexey Kuraev, Thiyazan Salman, Tu H. Nguyen, Mat Kelly and Sawood Alam
2025 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), pp 217-226
15 Dec 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JCDL67857.2025.00033

Abstract

Decentralized Web DWeb Evaluations Indexes InterPlanetary File System IPARO IPFS Joining processes Libraries Web Archiving History
Earlier approaches such as InterPlanetary Wayback (IPWB) demonstrated how archived content could be stored in the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) but still required a centralized index to resolve resources. We evaluate the feasibility of the InterPlanetary Archival Record Object (IPARO), a framework proposed to eliminate the dependency on local indexes in decentralized web archiving. IPARO addresses this limitation by embedding version-linked references directly into archival objects stored in IPFS and using the InterPlanetary Name System (IPNS) for discovery of the latest versions. This design enables traversal of a resource's version history entirely within the decentralized network. In this paper, we simulate the construction and resolution of IPARO chains to assess their practicality for replaying archived Web content without centralized infrastructure. Our evaluation examines integrity and availability under various conditions. Results show that IPARO retains the benefits of distributed storage while eliminating reliance on local indexes, offering a scalable and robust model for decentralized preservation.

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