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To be clear, I don't think it will come to this. But right now, ICANN believes that they can get away with anything, and have started to act on that belief. We
by ohazi 7y ago
To be clear, I don't think it will come to this. But right now, ICANN believes that they can get away with anything, and have started to act on that belief.
We should begin the process of scaring them back on track. Start brainstorming. Start writing IETF proposals that prominently feature removing ICANN from the loop. Come up with ideas for migrating current domain owners to the new system. Build prototypes. Start putting those prototypes into web browsers behind feature flags.
Show them what the internet could look like if it starts to fragment at the DNS level.
Show them that we're serious.
- pfundstein 7y agoNameCoin [1] is an emerging consensus-based decentralized DNS system. Any replacement will need to facilitate existing domains, it could be implemented as an add-on to existing resolvers like bind or dnsmasq. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
- ohazi 7y agoOne problem at a time. I don't think it's a good idea to toss in an ambitious redesign of the internet name system when it's not even clear that we can get everybody to agree to just stare down ICANN.
- rasengan 7y agoHandshake [1] migrates current stakeholders to a new decentralized root owned by the commons and works within existing protocol standards. [1] https://www.handshake.org https://www.handshake.org