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Add content about IPFS in resource constrained environments #1412

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Background

Many ongoing projects explore how to use IPFS in resource-constrained environments such as mobile devices, web browsers, and IoT devices.

Examples include Aggregore, Durin, and Iroh, Capyloon, and ipfs-embed

These rely on similar patterns, such as HTTP IPFS Gateways and "delegated providing" using pinning services (and the upcoming writeable gateway spec).

Page goal

  • Educate about the resources commonly needed by an IPFS node, e.g. access to TCP/UDP connections, no. of peers, being long-running (to continue publishing to the DHT), be publicly reachable
  • Educate about the trade-offs, how some responsibilities can be delegated, and the landscape of options (delegated routing over HTTP with link to spec), delegated representation and providing pinning services, verified retrieval with gateways.
  • link out to relevant tooling, libraries, and projects working on this.

Tasks

  • Create PR for new page in Concepts section to capture info above with sections and links to the implementations page.
  • Create task list in PR
  • Link PR to this issue
  • Add PR to ipfs docs work board
  • Remove this issue from ipfs docs work board

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