On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 04:14:37PM -0400, Ted Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 12:19 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > a non-centralised non-attackable truly peer-to-peer > > replacement for the existing DNS infrastructure. > > Is this something the FreedomBox Debian project or the FreedomBox > Foundation have committed to producing? > > Such a replacement would be an extremely sophisticated product of the > conjunction of multiple technological advancements that simply don't > exist yet. It was my understanding that the Freedombox project was more > about integrating existing systems than attempting to develop novel > solutions.
Having spent some time thinking about it, I agree this is actually not really realistic to assume the that freedombox project would implement such a system soon. At least for the use case in which owners would buy a domain and host it on their freedombox. I don't see actually any way to be sure that this domain couldn't be taken down. Still I believe that the freedombox project could at least setup a dynamic DNS service ala dyndns, where owners could register a subdomain. I believe that the only way to actually workaround the super-hierarchical DNS problem is by community support. If the top domain providing this service was run by public well-known and supported organisations/individuals, it would be hard to force them to shut down a subdomain, or/and threaten them to do so, cause they are public entities, with a big community supporting them. Maybe the first todo in this direction would be to setup an organisation (or use the freedomboxfoundation.org?), who's members would be well known "privacy concerned" people/organisations, that would register a domain. Then think about a way to do this service in a privacy aware way. bert. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
