Abstract
Over the last 12 years the LOCKSS Program at Stanford has developed and deployed an open source, peer-to-peer system now comprising about 200 LOCKSS boxes in libraries around the world preserving a wide range of webpublished content. Initially supported by NSF, and subsequently by the Mellon Foundation, Sun Microsystems and NDIIPP, the program has since 2004 been sustainable, funded by the libraries using it. The program won an ACM award for breakthrough research in fault and attack resistance in peer-to-peer systems. Since it was designed initially for e-journals, the system’s design is unusual; it is driven primarily by copyright law. The design principles were:
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