Hi Marc, On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Marc <[email protected]> wrote: > There are several open source registies out there: > > http://let.de/index.php/the-search-for-a-registry-solution-experiences-of-a-small-cctld/ > > Why certs ? Every twitter or facebook app works with an api key , why not > simply use somethign like that ?
Not sure which problem you are trying to solve here, you should clarify. Whether a DNS registry is open source or not is largely irrelevant, if you need a domain you need someone to provide you with it - unless you plan to run your own TLD, we're obviously not all going to do. > Why reinventing the wheel when working code and solutions are out there ? > > http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/uia/ Thanks for this link, this is awesome work which I was unaware of. :-) The research paper is very long and I only skimmed it to get a feel for what it could do. IAt first glance this looks very relevant to other (non-web-serving) aspects of the FreedomBox - it looks like it is (potentially) a more decentralized and more performant alternative to Tor (so gaining speed and decentralization,but sacrificing strong anonymity). There may well be many use-cases where that is a good trade-off. However, at first glance UIA doesn't appear useful for folks who want to take part in the "legacy" public web, as the addresses it allocates are cryptographic hashes which they generally represent to the OS as part of the IPv6 pool reserved for link-local (so completely non-routeable). -- Bjarni R. Einarsson Founder, lead developer of PageKite. Make localhost servers visible to the world: https://pagekite.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
