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DNS will be decentralized in the future. This will be one of the motivating examples.

by staunch 11y ago

alanpost 11y ago
How could DNS become more decentralized? You already have your choice of TLDs, registrars, ISPs, and software. If that's not good enough you can host a public key under .onion.
- nly 11y ago
  Namecoin basically.
  - kuschku 11y ago
    And how do I get my specific domain name that I want to have via namecoin? How do I get rid of illegal domain squatters? There are good reasons for centralized systems.
    - hellbanner 11y ago
      To get it, you have to register first. What is an illegal domain squatter? Someone using your business name? Namespaces are bound to collide.. think of all the JohnSmiths who want JohnSmith.com
      - kuschku 11y ago
        So, the solution to a namespace collision is "first come, first serve"?
- imaginenore 11y ago
  DNS is not decentralized at all. It has a center - ICANN (organizational, legal) and the root servers (physical), which gives one party a near absolute control. Namecoin is decentralized.
toast0 11y ago
DNS is about as decentralized a naming system as you can get where there's also widespread agreement regarding who controls a name. I'm not sure how someone not checking and confirming their email address once a year is going to motivate anyone to do anything, other than be sure they use an email address they intend to check once in a while.
- guelo 11y ago
  Why can't we have an alternate hierarchy that is not controlled by ICANN? Parallel .com root servers and any other gods we want.
  - BillinghamJ 11y ago
    You can. Good luck getting anyone else to use it though.
StephenFalken 11y ago
That truly is a pressing challenge due to all these DNS related issues. It makes me remember a short paper from 1977 by Carl A. Sunshine [0] where he proposed a network architecture with no global unique addressing, no global routing, and no global naming. These three major axis of modern Internet censorship would fall apart. David P. Reed, the designer of UDP, tried to push for larger role of source routing in the then nascent Internet architecture. But, somehow, it didn't reach what he had envisioned. The 70's were a very interesting era on the research of networking fundamentals and I find it sad that such important topics like source routing weren't investigated much further in the following decades. Shouldn't we somehow return to the fundamentals of networking to try to find ways of dealing with the censorship by the status quo against the natural need of sharing our digital culture in a free and anonymous way? [0] http://cartap.us/p29-sunshine.pdf http://cartap.us/p29-sunshine.pdf

DNS will be decentralized in the future. This will be one of the motivating examples.

by staunch 11y ago

DNS will be decentralized in the future. This will be one of the motivating examples.

How could DNS become more decentralized? You already have your choice of TLDs, registrars, ISPs, and software. If that's not good enough you can host a public key under .onion.

nly 11y ago
Namecoin basically.
- kuschku 11y ago
  And how do I get my specific domain name that I want to have via namecoin? How do I get rid of illegal domain squatters? There are good reasons for centralized systems.
  - hellbanner 11y ago
    To get it, you have to register first. What is an illegal domain squatter? Someone using your business name? Namespaces are bound to collide.. think of all the JohnSmiths who want JohnSmith.com
    - kuschku 11y ago
      So, the solution to a namespace collision is "first come, first serve"?
imaginenore 11y ago
DNS is not decentralized at all. It has a center - ICANN (organizational, legal) and the root servers (physical), which gives one party a near absolute control. Namecoin is decentralized.

toast0 11y ago

DNS is about as decentralized a naming system as you can get where there's also widespread agreement regarding who controls a name. I'm not sure how someone not checking and confirming their email address once a year is going to motivate anyone to do anything, other than be sure they use an email address they intend to check once in a while.

guelo 11y ago
Why can't we have an alternate hierarchy that is not controlled by ICANN? Parallel .com root servers and any other gods we want.
- BillinghamJ 11y ago
  You can. Good luck getting anyone else to use it though.

StephenFalken 11y ago

That truly is a pressing challenge due to all these DNS related issues. It makes me remember a short paper from 1977 by Carl A. Sunshine [0] where he proposed a network architecture with no global unique addressing, no global routing, and no global naming. These three major axis of modern Internet censorship would fall apart. David P. Reed, the designer of UDP, tried to push for larger role of source routing in the then nascent Internet architecture. But, somehow, it didn't reach what he had envisioned. The 70's were a very interesting era on the research of networking fundamentals and I find it sad that such important topics like source routing weren't investigated much further in the following decades. Shouldn't we somehow return to the fundamentals of networking to try to find ways of dealing with the censorship by the status quo against the natural need of sharing our digital culture in a free and anonymous way? [0] http://cartap.us/p29-sunshine.pdf http://cartap.us/p29-sunshine.pdf