Re:The GNU Name System
by colinsane on Monday July 25, 2022 @03:01PM
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or you can go the Secure Scuttlebutt route where the user resolves a name based on some simple function of how your peers (which you explicitly choose) resolve it.
Blockchain DNS will probably happen first, but i think name resolution which doesn’t require global consensus is under-appreciated. it’s like if i ask wikipedia (or a non-localized Google) for the page on “i3”, v.s. asking a random selection of my friends for the page on “i3”: i’m just always going to get a better result by more heavily weighting the response of my peers than the responses of people far-removed from me.
Blockchain DNS will probably happen first, but i think name resolution which doesn’t require global consensus is under-appreciated. it’s like if i ask wikipedia (or a non-localized Google) for the page on “i3”, v.s. asking a random selection of my friends for the page on “i3”: i’m just always going to get a better result by more heavily weighting the response of my peers than the responses of people far-removed from me.