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- From: Justin Chapweske <orasis AT acm.cs.umn.edu>
- To: Global-Scale Distributed Storage Systems <bluesky AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: distributed immutable namespace
- Date: 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/
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distributed immutable namespace,
Adam Back, 03/07/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: distributed immutable namespace, hal, 03/07/2001
- Re: distributed immutable namespace, Justin Chapweske, 03/07/2001
- Re: distributed immutable namespace, Adam Back, 03/07/2001
- Re: distributed immutable namespace, hal, 03/07/2001
- Re: distributed immutable namespace, Peter Todd, 03/07/2001
- Re: distributed immutable namespace, hal, 03/07/2001
- Re: distributed immutable namespace, Justin Chapweske, 03/07/2001
- Re: distributed immutable namespace, Justin Chapweske, 03/07/2001
- Re: distributed immutable namespace, Adam Back, 03/07/2001
- Re: distributed immutable namespace, Oskar Sandberg, 03/08/2001
- Re: distributed immutable namespace, Adam Back, 03/08/2001
- Re: distributed immutable namespace, Ian Clarke, 03/08/2001
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