Temporal Stack

had a think.  thought i'd post it.

IMO there's cause to build into WWW / HTTP a method to support temporal
lookups, other than simply using archive.org.   i imagine this would
eventually require ICANN, IETF (etc) support; amongst other implications.

The functional outcome would be an ability to look up a page at a
particular date.   This may involve differences in who owned the domain
name at that time (vs. who may own it later on), amongst many other
implications.  There would have to be a 'format' of 'standards' around how
to achieve it, for long-term support.

Foundational requirements, prior to more easily engaging CMS providers such
as Wordpress / automattic, drupal, etc.  would be to define a simple
concept that could be built upon to do it.  I imagine it may take some
years to do, and i'm not entirely sure i'm up for it - historically no
funding for work by civics persons (civilians, working independent of
contract / employment revenue) for doing W3C works; maybe, with new changes
that might be reviewed; but regardless,

cost of storage, etc. has been dropping.  I'm not sure what the economic
model for it would be, but i can think of a variety of ways a solution that
attends to the economic implications could be forged.  I also think, an
evaluation may lead to an outcome where it's able to be understood how to
do it at a lower energy cost than simply employing DHTs / Blockchains
("DLTs"), although the file-system layer may be considered independently,
atm, idk; and don't really want to make the point any more complicated than
it needs to be for now.

Timothy Holborn