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I think decentralized DNS with machine readable addresses is basically a solved problem (e.g. Magnet links or Tor Hidden Services). A domain in this case is ak
by zaroth 6y ago
I think decentralized DNS with machine readable addresses is basically a solved problem (e.g. Magnet links or Tor Hidden Services).
A domain in this case is akin to a hash of a public key, or something like that, just enough to securely identify the target of the communication so there’s nothing to “revoke” although that’s not to say the peer discovery systems could not try to blacklist you.
Decentralized DNS with human readable addresses (unique screen names) is perhaps more a political problem than a technical one, and hence never fully “solved” just different sets of trade-offs that can be made.
- kick 6y agoI'm not talking about the technical problem, the technical problem is solved (including for human-readable addresses, which is the part that actually matters), I'm talking about the political part of the problem. "No one bothers with decentralized DNS," here's the problem space it's the killer tool for.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoPeople want a permissionless (like bitcoin) name service, and they also don't want good names / trademarks to be squatted. However, between these two you can only pick one. You can't solve squatting problem without some kind of authority over issued names.
- Arathorn 6y agoSocial attestations are another solution to this, unless you count them as an authority over issued names. “If all my friends are convinced this person is called Bob, that’s good enough for me”. Doesn’t help with uniqueness though, but that’s what we have keys for.