[tahoe-dev] StorageSS 08 paper -- due Aug 3

[zooko]

Folks:

I'm going to be spending some time updating my paper for StorageSS 08  
[1].  The final version is due this Sunday, August 3.  The submitted  
version and the reviewers' comments were earlier posted to this list  
[2].

My goals are to address, as much as I can in time constraints, the  
following reviewer comments:

1.  There is no Related Works section.

2.  There is no evaluation, i.e. measurement of Tahoe's performance  
or how widely deployed it is, or any other interesting numbers.

3.  There are no diagrams.

I do not have experience creating nice diagrams, so if anybody wants  
to jump in with beautiful diagrams of section 4.3 -- Immutable FIles,  
section 4.4 -- Mutable Files, and section 5.1 -- ECDSA and  
Intermediate Public Keys, then you will earn a place in the  
acknowledgments of the paper and my gratitude.  Brian's SVG diagrams  
in the docs/ directory [3] are a good start, but they need to be  
updated and simplified, and converted into .eps or .pdf or some such  
format for inclusion in the paper.

Regards,

Zooko

[1] http://storagess.org/2008/
[2] http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2008-July/000656.html
[3] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/browser/docs