consistency of terminology between 'provider' and 'publisher'
willscott opened this issue · comments
In the filecoin world, 'storage provider' is used to refer to sources of content, which will be some of the entities who act in this 'index provider' role.
In engine/
, this code base uses the term publisher
to describe the role of exposing the chain of advertisements, and provider
(found in schema.Advertisement
) to describe the actual source of data from a client's perspective.
We should see if there's either a 3rd term we can use, or another pattern to help make this less confusing, because it is non-intuitive that running an index provider
is actually running a publisher
and not a provider
.
Perhaps replace publisher
with index provider
, and provider
with content provider
?