distributed immutable namespace

Justin Chapweske orasis@acm.cs.umn.edu
Wed, 7 Mar 2001 20:36:11 +0000


> 
> That's an interesting idea, but isn't there a danger that a first-come
> first-served policy will result in someone writing a script to reserve
> all one-letter, two-letter, three-letter words etc. as fast as he can
> generate keys?
> 

You could slow it down with a "hash cash" type protocol where a person 
would have to for example burn $100 worth of CPU cycles in order to 
register a top(ish) level domain.  This is currently how the real DNS 
system works....maybe a very top level domain would cost $100M CPU cycles 
to register to avoid a completely flat name space.

I love having these conversations on public mailing lists because you know 
some bastard would patent these pretty obvious ideas otherwise. 

-- 
Justin Chapweske, Lead Swarmcast Developer, OpenCola Inc.
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/swarmcast/