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Is Carlos Simpson's Descent available online?

Is the paper "Descent" by Carlos Simpson in the book "Alexandre Grothendieck: A Mathematical Portrait" page 83-142 (or a similar version of that paper) available anywhere online? …
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What is descent data (of higher categories), conceptually?

Before given the explicit construction, I would like to know what SHOULD the descent data be. Or more precisely what are the properties that descent data must satisfy? … only exists in good (say flat) cases while the descent data can be given in general cases. …
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Can we describe equivariant vector bundles of free group action in terms of descent theory (...

(We have an algebraic version of all above, say in Section 4.4 of Vistoli's "Notes on Grothendieck topologies, fibered categories and descent theory". …
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