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Re:Willow Protocol by tadfisher on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:58PM (#39038056)
Imagine if DNS supplied every URL and not just domain names. You need some mechanism to propagate resource changes. IPNS has two practical mechanisms: a global DHT that takes time to propagate, and a pub/sub that requires peers to actively subscribe to your changes.
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Re:Willow Protocol by anacrolix on Thursday January 18, 2024 @05:49AM (#39040268)
btlink does DNS per domain name, which you could argue is a sweet spot between too many queries and being too broad. at least in the case of the web, it works nicely.
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