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Re:Decentralizing the Internet's Root by arcticbull on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @01:12PM (#28618944)
I'm well aware of the state of the art lol. But that's not a better system in any way. It's slower, less efficient and provides zero incremental value. And a ton of complexity and risk.

Is it possible to solve the problem? Maybe? Maybe not? I don't know. But so what if we do? In what concrete way is this better? It feels like at best we'll be right where we started.

It's a solution searching for a problem. A solution to a question nobody is asking.

[edit] personally I couldn't care less what database you choose to use to store DNS records - but it should probably be better than what we have now right?

Re:Decentralizing the Internet's Root by gfodor on Friday September 24, 2021 @12:14PM (#28644411)
"What if we could get everything we wanted where the root certificate isn't a nuclear weapon?"

There, I asked it.