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# W3 Index

![wip](https://img.shields.io/badge/status-wip-orange.svg?style=flat-square)

# Introduction

## Abstract

W3 Indexing protocol allows authorized agents to submit verifiable claims about content-addressable data to be publish on [InterPlanetary Network Indexer (IPNI)][IPNI], making it publicly queryable.

## Concepts

### Space

A namespace, often referred as a "space", is an owned resource that can be shared. It corresponds to a unique asymmetric cryptographic keypair and is identified by a [`did:key`] URI.

# Capabilities

## Index Add

Authorized agent MAY invoke `/space/index/add` capability on the [space] subject to submit [content index] for publishing on [InterPlanetary Network Indexer (IPNI)][IPNI].

### Index Add Invocation Example

Invocation example illustrates Alice requesting to add index under "bafy..blob" to be published on the network.

```js
{
"cmd": "/space/index/add",
"sub": "did:key:zAlice",
"iss": "did:key:zAlice",
"aud": "did:web:web3.storage",
"args": {
"index": { "/": "bafy...blob" }
}
}
```

### Index Add Capability

#### Index Add Capability Schema

```ts
type AddIndex = {
cmd: "/space/index/add"
sub: SpaceDID
args: {
// Link is the Content Archive (CAR) containing
// the `Index`.
index: Link<ContentArchive<Index>>
}
}

// Type describes a CAR format
type ContentArchive<T> = ByteView<{
roots: [Block<T>]
blocks: Block[]
}>
```
### Index
#### Index Schema
Index schema is variant type keyed by the format descriptor label designed to allow format evolution through versioning and additional schema variants.
```ts
type Index = Variant<{
"index/sharded/[email protected]": ShardedDAGIndex
}>
```
#### Sharded DAG Index
Sharded DAG index MUST describe complete set of blocks that make up the `content` DAG in terms of `BlobSlice`s.
##### Sharded DAG Index Schema
```ts

type ShardedDAGIndex = {
// content root CID
content: Link<any>
// links to blob indexes that contain blocks of the content DAG
shards: Link<BlobIndex>[]
}

type BlobIndex = [
// hash digest of the blob
digest: Multihash
// Index of blob slices
slices: BlobSlice
]

type BlobSlice = [
// hash digest of the slice
digest: Multihash
// Slice offset
offset: Int
// Slice size in bytes
length: Int
]

type Multihash = bytes
```
ℹ️ Please note that `shards` is a list of `BlobIndex` links. This provide a flexibility of bundling blob indexes or externalizing them by linking to them.
It is RECOMMENDED to bundle all the `BlobIndex`s inside the Content Archive of the `Index`.
##### Sharded DAG Index Example
> For the reader convenience we use `link` function to denote external blocks that should be linked
```js
{
"index/sharded/[email protected]": {
"content": { "/": "bafy..dag" },
"shards": [
link([
// blob multihash
{ "/": { "bytes": "blb...left" } },
// sliced within the blob
[
[{ "/": { "bytes": "block..1"} }, 0, 128],
[{ "/": { "bytes": "block..2"} }, 129, 256],
[{ "/": { "bytes": "block..3"} }, 257, 384],
[{ "/": { "bytes": "block..4"} }, 385, 512]
]
]),
link([
// blob multihash
{ "/": { "bytes": "blb...right" } },
// sliced within the blob
[
[{ "/": { "bytes": "block..5"} }, 0, 128],
[{ "/": { "bytes": "block..6"} }, 129, 256],
[{ "/": { "bytes": "block..7"} }, 257, 384],
[{ "/": { "bytes": "block..8"} }, 385, 512]
]
])
]
}
}
```
[IPNI]:https://github.com/ipni/specs/blob/main/IPNI.md
[`did:key`]:https://w3c-ccg.github.io/did-method-key/

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