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Re: America takes over DNS
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:04:18 +0200
On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 09:23:32AM +0100, michael.dillon () bt com <michael.dillon () bt com> wrote a message of 46 lines which said:
It is probably time to start looking at alternative naming systems. For instance, we have a much better understanding of P2P technology these days and a P2P mesh could serve as the top level finder in a naming system rather than having a fixed set of roots.
The only serious (?) proposal I've seen until now, CoDoNS (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/beehive/codons.php), uses DNSSEC, so it has the same dependency on the US government.
better understanding of webs of trust that we could apply to such a mesh.
You mix up *resolution* of names (which could be done by a P2P mesh like CoDoNS, replacing the root name servers) and *registration* of names, which have to be hierarchical if you want to preserve unicity of names. And this is the important point of control (the root name servers are not controlled by the US government, unlike the registration root). So, you've not solved the problem.
Current thread:
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Mattias Ahnberg (Apr 01)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names Chris L. Morrow (Apr 01)
- America takes over DNS (re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names) J. Oquendo (Apr 01)
- Re: America takes over DNS David Conrad (Apr 01)
- Re: America takes over DNS Gadi Evron (Apr 01)
- RE: America takes over DNS michael.dillon (Apr 02)
- Re: America takes over DNS Stephane Bortzmeyer (Apr 02)
- RE: America takes over DNS michael.dillon (Apr 02)
- Re: America takes over DNS Stephane Bortzmeyer (Apr 02)
- RE: America takes over DNS michael.dillon (Apr 02)
- America takes over DNS (re: On-going Internet Emergency and Domain Names) J. Oquendo (Apr 01)
- Re: America takes over DNS Peter Dambier (Apr 02)
- Re: America takes over DNS Stephane Bortzmeyer (Apr 02)
- Re: America takes over DNS J. Oquendo (Apr 02)
- RE: America takes over DNS michael.dillon (Apr 02)
- Re: America takes over DNS Jerry Dixon (Apr 02)
- Re: America takes over DNS David Conrad (Apr 02)
- Re: America takes over DNS Randy Bush (Apr 02)