First of all, please, could everyone reign in their discussion style a bit, this is not tor-talk ;-). I think the real issue is that the two of you are talking past each other, and we really need to get the emotion out of this.
My view from the sideline: Carlo is arguing from the perspective of GNUnet for the people. He is correctly arguing that we need to consider the social implications of what we do, and the kinds of interactions we like to see if we design applications for people. He might be right that for the SecuShare OSN, there is no need for global reverse lookup, and we can debate whether this would be a good or a bad feature. Martin is looking at solutions that in my view relate to more corporate use cases with access control, credential management, etc. This is a very different application domain, but the Internet has many applications and let's not forget that corporations are people too. Eh, scratch that, I mean that our corporate masters also use the Internet and we shall serve them. At least for the occasions where they may have seemingly legitimate needs. At a higher level, my view is that we should really avoid this silver bullet idea (which for Carlo is SecuShare's design): GNUnet is about providing a broad toolchest of (quality) solutions to common problems when building secure (decentralised) network applications. In this context, Martin has an idea for reverse lookup, and I fully support him exploring it. Maybe we'll find it useful, maybe not. For me, it is now clear that Carlo has a different need, and it'll require a different solution. There is nothing wrong about doing both, they are orthogonal and not fundamentally incompatible. So what we can debate (without accusations please) is whether Martin-style "global" reverse lookups is socially/technically useful for SecuShare. Maybe Carlo is right and it is not. However, GNS is more than a PKI for SecuShare, and it is flexible enough to allow us to do both, without one feature compromising the efficiency/usability/security/privacy of the other. On 11/05/2016 07:12 PM, Martin Schanzenbach wrote: > Where is that coming from? (indeed)
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