Re:The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Enginee...
by lgierth on Sunday June 19, 2016 @07:49PM
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Hey -- one of the IPFS devs here. You can actually already use DNS to point a human-readable name to an IPFS hash.
Try out `dig +short TXT ipfs.io`, take the `/ipfs/<hash>` from that record, and go to https://ipfs.io/ipfs/<hash>. Then try https://ipfs.io/ipns/ipfs.io :)
By the same not, more and more projects are just using gh-pages... it's useful, out there, free (of cost to those publishing) and in general works.
In the end, there's a lot of options, I think seeing IPFS support baked into the browsers will see a new wave the likes that we saw in the late 90's of customized content, and then tooling that publishes to IPFS will take hold and some things may become more standardized.
I think there is a need to get to a DNS pointer that can take one from a name to an IPFS directory (similar to a CNAME) though that may need to be updated for each publish. In the end it can/will all be very interesting to say the least.