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Re:The GNU Name System by octoberfranklin on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @02:31AM (#30159601)
> it appears that there is no requirement in Zooko's Triangle for those human-meaningful addresses to be globally unique

If they aren't globally unique they aren't really names anymore.

If I send you a link involving news.ycombinator.com, and you think that news.ycombinator.com is really furrypr0n.com, I would say that we are not using the same naming system.

That isn't distributed; it's merely incoherent.

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Re:The GNU Name System by immibis on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @06:48AM (#30161317)
It's a naming system, which is human-meaningful and decentralized, but not globally-unique. It fulfils 2 out of 3 criteria, just as Zooko predicted.
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