IPFS Weekly Call 2019-07-22
Channel: IPFS
Date: 2019-07-22

Presentation: wab.ca and wabac.js
Speaker: Ilya Kreymer - https://github.com/ikreymer

Notes
* Ilya runs webrecorder.io
* Hosted web service that records traffic for archiving as the user browsers around
* Part of a grant funded non-profit called Rhizome
* Wab.ac is completely client side player for WARC files using service workers
* Any WARC file can be played back completely in the browser
* Can play wab.ac inside Internet Archive Wayback machine
* Also support .har files (built into the browser) - create in Chrome devtools

Questions
* Who is funding? Webrecorder.io grant from Mellon Foundation - files hosted on WebRecorder.io (2 year grant)
* Data can be stored anywhere and rendered completely in the browser
* Challenges public vs. private? Webrecorder.io is private by default. Possible for somebody to archive private social media 
* Client side archiving is not possible yet in a browser without an extension
* Ibnesayeed: WARCreate is another tool for creating WARC files … missing piece is discovery. Opportunity to integrate IPFS for discovery. - Think it would be ideal to integrate with a separate discovery layer. Integration with js-ipfs would make a lot of sense.
* Ibneysayeed was in D.C. at the Web Packaging workshop … pages could run as the original domain.
* All the position papers from the ESCAPE workshop: https://www.iab.org/activities/workshops/escape-workshop/
* Signed exchanges are good for verification and trust
* Marcin: If anyone wants to follow, I am gathering notes about different ways of Mirroring  Web to IPFS: https://github.com/ipfs/in-web-browsers/issues/94 (started as ideas for our browser extension)