Naming via SDSI

Timm Murray admin@madtimes.com
Sat, 10 Mar 2001 17:14:23 -0500



hal@finney.org wrote on 3/6/01 9:08 am:

>How would that work in a P2P=20
>model?  If we did have=20
>competing name lookup=20
>services (using Wei's term=20
>from the three service=20
>model), would there have to=20
>be some global mechanism=20
>to make sure that no two=20
>services tried to handle the=20
>same addresses?  Or would=20
>we accept that address to=20
>name mapping was=20
>inherently ambiguous?  Or,=20
>perhaps, would TLDs have to=20
>have unfriendly unforgeable=20
>names?

In Freenet Name Service (FNS, see eof.sourceforge.net) there
are no TLDs.  I suspect people will make psedo-TLDs, but there
is no technical reason to do so.

Interfacing with other P2P DNS systems is something I have not
considered.  Thoughts?


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