The government has identified DNS as an especially vulnerable component of the internet and intends to attack it: "A service provider shall take technically fe

The government has identified DNS as an especially vulnerable component of the internet and intends to attack it: "A service provider shall take technically feasible and reasonable measures designed to prevent [...] the domain name [...] from resolving to that domain name’s Internet Protocol address." Hard to tell which incarnation of this effort will become law, and when, but it seems prudent to assume that it will. Rather than simply hope the government won't attack the network, or petition the government not to attack it, we should engineer improvements to the network which increase its resistance to attack. Time for a more distributed, probably peer-to-peer, DNS. It's been said that the internet interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it. That's precisely what these threats call for.