One of the biggest challenges with IPFS in my mind is the lack of a story around how to delete content.
There may be a variety of reasons to delete things,
- Old packages that you simply don't want to version (think npm or pip)
- Content that is pirated or proprietary or offensive that needs to be removed from the system
But in its current avatar, there isn't an easy way for you to delete data from other people's IPFS hosts in case they choose to host your data. You can delete it from your own. There are solutions proposed with IPNS and pinning etc - but they don't really seem feasible to me last I looked around.
This list as @fwip said is great as a wishlist - but I would love to see them address some of the things needed in making this a much more usable system as well in this roadmap.
There may be a variety of reasons to delete things,
- Old packages that you simply don't want to version (think npm or pip)
- Content that is pirated or proprietary or offensive that needs to be removed from the system
But in its current avatar, there isn't an easy way for you to delete data from other people's IPFS hosts in case they choose to host your data. You can delete it from your own. There are solutions proposed with IPNS and pinning etc - but they don't really seem feasible to me last I looked around.
This list as @fwip said is great as a wishlist - but I would love to see them address some of the things needed in making this a much more usable system as well in this roadmap.