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Thank you for sharing your project, Elliott. It is an intriguing technology, and a clever way of putting together existing pieces in a new way. I think it is

Thank you for sharing your project, Elliott. It is an intriguing technology, and a clever way of putting together existing pieces in a new way. I think it is very much in the spirit of how things are done on the Internet, although I'm not entirely convinced that NUM wouldn't gum up the DNS system if widely adopted. My question to you is, how would I take advantage of NUM as a small-time personal-website operator, if my website was largely about small text-file snippets?

elliottinvent 5y ago
Thanks for your kind comment. The standardised use cases of NUM (currently contact data, images [gravatar for domains] and some others) would allow you as a small website operator to publish any public data that you wanted to be machine-readable. I think your question might be how to use NUM to serve out your small text-file snippets? If so, NUM could be used for that. NUM lookups are based on URIs, eg: num://numexample.com:1 In this example module 1 is contact data and lookups for this uri involve a query to the dns for: dig 1._num.numexample.com TXT If instead of publishing contact data you wanted to publish general purpose data you can do this using “module zero”. For example data could be published form the NUM URI num://numexample.com:0/foo The DNS location is: foo.0._num.numexample.com