> What Handshake is trying to achieve is in essence similar to trying to establish a new set of root servers. And just like that idea, it will never realistical

> What Handshake is trying to achieve is in essence similar to trying to establish a new set of root servers. And just like that idea, it will never realistically happen. Yes, it will need to find a foothold in a parallel domain (no pun intended). IPC is one example. Combine something like in-process REST with the ability for any app to trivially bind to a name, and we'd be getting somewhere interesting.