IPFS Connect Istanbul 2023: Cars and Other Forms of Transportation

Cars as a transport protocol for moving data are beginning to supercede bitswap, but comes with limitations. The trustless gateway protocol does not directly yield an intuitive way for a client to retrieve a file from multiple origins. Providing authentication or indications of partial transmission end up with an unclear home between HTTP transport and application level semantics.

Despite these hurdles, the car format continues to perform well and demonstrates sufficient flexibility to meet increasing demands on it.