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Re:The GNU Name System by sobkas on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @03:11PM (#30168509)
> GNS is about better technical foundations for DNS in the 21st century, it's not about changing the politics of the ICANN root _(although it's arguably an empowering technology for alternative roots to emerge)_.

For a such long answer, you could just mention this at beginning and stop there. This is a reason it will never become a standard. There is no possibility that a central authority will endorse a tool that will potentially make them obsolete or create a competitor to them.

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Re:The GNU Name System by southerntofu on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @06:33AM (#30176216)
i said "arguably" because it's definitely not a key property of the system. GNS is designed to make it easier to add entries to your local/personal root, which *could* be used by alt roots. but hey like other commenters said people/orgs can already do that in their resolver so it's not exactly a game changer.
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