README.md

Carbonado Hardening Improvement Proposals (CHIPs)

Carbonado, commonly known as black diamond, is one of the toughest forms of natural diamond.

It is also an excellent name for an encrypted-by-default deliberately opaque apocalypse-hardened archival format. Diamonds are nonfungible, much like valuable data.

• TODO: CHIP-0 - Terminology

Storage Formats

• TODO: CHIP-1 - Carbonado Archive Format
• TODO: CHIP-2 - Carbonado Storage Level Bitmask
• TODO: CHIP-3 - Carbonado File Header Format
• TODO: CHIP-4 - Error Correction Codes
• TODO: CHIP-5 - Catalog Format
• TODO: CHIP-6 - File Segmenting
• TODO: CHIP-7 - On-chain Checkpoints

Storage Backends

• TODO: CHIP-10 - Storage Provider
• TODO: CHIP-11 - Storage Signer
• TODO: CHIP-12 - Storage Market
• TODO: CHIP-14 - Storage Client
• TODO: CHIP-15 - Storage Verifier
• TODO: CHIP-16 - Storage Index
• TODO: CHIP-17 - Storage Relay

Storage Frontends

• TODO: CHIP-20 - HTTP Frontend
• TODO: CHIP-21 - FTP Frontend
• TODO: CHIP-22 - rsync Frontend
• TODO: CHIP-23 - BitTorrent Frontend
• TODO: CHIP-24 - S3-compatible Object Storage Frontend
• TODO: CHIP-25 - IPFS Frontend
• TODO: CHIP-26 - Hypercore Frontend
• TODO: CHIP-27 - Storm Frontend

Storage Clients

• TODO: CHIP-30 - Storage Verification Client
• TODO: CHIP-31 - Verifiable Replication Factor
• TODO: CHIP-32 - Storage Index Announcement Record

Storage Economics

• TODO: CHIP-40 - Storage Payments
• TODO: CHIP-41 - Storage Market Pricing Function
• TODO: CHIP-42 - Abandoned Storage Arbitrage
• TODO: CHIP-43 - Cross-Market Storage Arbitrage
• TODO: CHIP-44 - Object Storage Cost Ceiling

Extended Catalog Types

• TODO: CHIP-50 - Encrypted Client Record
• TODO: CHIP-51 - Appendable Catalog Record