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Add IPFS "Mainnet" to the glossary 

Credit to @bmann for coining the term.
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2color authored Aug 19, 2024
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### CAR

The CAR (Content Addressable aRchives) is a format for serialized representation of any [IPLD](#ipld) [DAG](#dag). Typically in a file with a .car filename extension or a byte stream marked as [application/vnd.ipld.car](https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/vnd.ipld.car) media type. [More about CAR](https://ipld.io/specs/transport/car/)
The CAR (Content Addressable aRchives) is a format for serialized representation of any [IPLD](#ipld) [DAG](#dag). The CAR format is a way of packaging up content-addressed data into archive files that can be easily stored and transferred. Typically in a file with a `.car` filename extension or a byte stream marked as [application/vnd.ipld.car](https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/vnd.ipld.car) media type. [More about CAR](https://ipld.io/specs/transport/car/)

### CAR v1

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### Gateway

An IPFS Gateway acts as a bridge between traditional web browsers and IPFS. Through the gateway, users can browse files and websites stored in IPFS as if they were stored on a traditional web server. [More about Gateway](../concepts/ipfs-gateway.md) and [addressing IPFS on the web](../how-to/address-ipfs-on-web.md)
An IPFS Gateway is an HTTP server that acts as a bridge between web browsers and IPFS. Through a gateway, users can browse files and websites stored in IPFS as if they were stored on a HTTP web server. Most commonly, an IPFS Gateway is an IPFS node that also exposes an HTTP IPFS Gateway endpoint. [More about Gateway](../concepts/ipfs-gateway.md) and [addressing IPFS on the web](../how-to/address-ipfs-on-web.md)

### Garbage Collection

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## M

### IPFS Mainnet

IPFS Mainnet is a term used to describe the default or "main" public network that most IPFS implementations connect to by default. Most [IPFS implementations](https://specs.ipfs.tech/architecture/principles/#ipfs-implementation-requirements) were designed to work with Mainnet (but some can be configured instead to form a private swarm). Mainnet IPFS nodes typically join the [Amino DHT](#amino) for content routing with the help of the [Bootstrap nodes](#bootstrap-node), rely on [Bitswap](#bitswap) for data transfer, [UnixFS](#unixfs) for encoding files and directories, and typically expose an [IPFS Gateway](#gateway). This has mostly been assumed for the IPFS network. Nonetheless, IPFS Mainnet is a useful distinction in a world of many [IPFS implementations](../concepts/implementations.md) with varying degrees of interoperability.

### Merkle-DAG

The Merkle-DAG is a computer science data structure used at the core of IPFS files/block storage. Merkle-DAGs create a hash to their content, known as a [Content Identifier](#cid). [More about Merkle-DAG](merkle-dag.md)
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