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Re:The GNU Name System by schanzen on Monday July 25, 2022 @06:47AM (#32222731)
This is a complex question. In order to use GNS "like" DNS, you need a similar Root Zone governance. See also https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-schanzen-gns-19.html#n... and https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-schanzen-gns-19.html#n...

However, the protocol does not really care what kind of governance is chosen or present. In order to understand this a bit better I invite anyone to read section 1-3 of https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-schanzen-gns-19.html

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Re:The GNU Name System by zerocrates on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:26PM (#32227794)
I mean, DNS also doesn't care at a protocol level about governance, right?

It's just the actual, practical DNS system that everybody actually uses which does.

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Re:The GNU Name System by schanzen on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:46PM (#32228168)
Yes. And it is totally possible that a "common" and default use case with GNS looks just like DNS. The spec just does not mandate the governance. In fact, it mandates implementations to honor user-chosen configurations for petname overrides. (See my other comments)
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