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There are also other reasons (besides authentication) that a blockchain-based architecture is desirable for the Internet: - real-ownership of domain names (fre

There are also other reasons (besides authentication) that a blockchain-based architecture is desirable for the Internet: - real-ownership of domain names (free of political pressures that result in domain-seizures) - a powerful, global identity system (not run by any government or mega-corporation) Some concepts & partial implementation: http://okturtles.com/#open-source http://okturtles.com/#open-source

tptacek 13y ago
Blockchain protocols: the Ron Pauls of distributed systems design. Replacement of DNS with a blockchain protocol is never going to happen. It's hard enough to talk DNS operators out of baking the CA system into DNS, despite the utter inapplicability of DNS to that problem. DNS has a fierce, powerful status quo advantage. If you believe strongly that blockchains are going to be the future of global networking, a better plan would be to build a system that ignored the DNS and used a blockchain protocol instead. For instance: the DNS doesn't play any role in matching Google search terms to SERPs, nor does it control how AIM matches names to IM accounts, nor does it control how IRC matches nicks to receivers. Forklifting out giant chunks of the Internet is a bad plan. Deprecate the Internet and build a new layer on top of it. Eventually, TCP/IP will find itself in the same role as Ethernet; it's inevitable.
- itistoday2 13y ago
  > "Deprecate the Internet and build a new layer on top of it." That's sorta what's taking place (not the entire Internet, but a part of it that's not serving us well). It's interesting that nearly that exact language was used when DNSChain (back then "DNSNMC") was introduced: [therightkey] DNSNMC deprecates Certificate Authorities and fixes HTTPS security http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/therightkey/current/msg00715.html http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/therightkey/current/msg... > "is never going to happen." How many times has humanity heard that refrain repeated? > "For instance: the DNS doesn't play any role in matching Google search terms to SERPs, nor does it control how AIM matches names to IM accounts, nor does it control how IRC matches nicks to receivers." You seem to not understand that DNSChain is not just a DNS server. It also is a RESTful HTTP API and interface to the blockchain. This means using HTTP, not DNS. DNS is just icing on the cake (and not "throwing the baby out with the bath water"). BTW, some of those things are already starting to happen. For instance, there's PoC Pidgen fork that works with Namecoin, and also a working Bitmessage + Namecoin client out there: https://www.mail-archive.com/enigmail-users@enigmail.net/msg00963.html https://www.mail-archive.com/enigmail-users@enigmail.net/msg...

tptacek 13y ago

Blockchain protocols: the Ron Pauls of distributed systems design. Replacement of DNS with a blockchain protocol is never going to happen. It's hard enough to talk DNS operators out of baking the CA system into DNS, despite the utter inapplicability of DNS to that problem. DNS has a fierce, powerful status quo advantage. If you believe strongly that blockchains are going to be the future of global networking, a better plan would be to build a system that ignored the DNS and used a blockchain protocol instead. For instance: the DNS doesn't play any role in matching Google search terms to SERPs, nor does it control how AIM matches names to IM accounts, nor does it control how IRC matches nicks to receivers. Forklifting out giant chunks of the Internet is a bad plan. Deprecate the Internet and build a new layer on top of it. Eventually, TCP/IP will find itself in the same role as Ethernet; it's inevitable.

itistoday2 13y ago
> "Deprecate the Internet and build a new layer on top of it." That's sorta what's taking place (not the entire Internet, but a part of it that's not serving us well). It's interesting that nearly that exact language was used when DNSChain (back then "DNSNMC") was introduced: [therightkey] DNSNMC deprecates Certificate Authorities and fixes HTTPS security http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/therightkey/current/msg00715.html http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/therightkey/current/msg... > "is never going to happen." How many times has humanity heard that refrain repeated? > "For instance: the DNS doesn't play any role in matching Google search terms to SERPs, nor does it control how AIM matches names to IM accounts, nor does it control how IRC matches nicks to receivers." You seem to not understand that DNSChain is not just a DNS server. It also is a RESTful HTTP API and interface to the blockchain. This means using HTTP, not DNS. DNS is just icing on the cake (and not "throwing the baby out with the bath water"). BTW, some of those things are already starting to happen. For instance, there's PoC Pidgen fork that works with Namecoin, and also a working Bitmessage + Namecoin client out there: https://www.mail-archive.com/enigmail-users@enigmail.net/msg00963.html https://www.mail-archive.com/enigmail-users@enigmail.net/msg...