On 10/18/2012 06:59 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>       I see that the contemporary P2P networks employ distinct URI
>       schemes (such as freenet:, but also magnet:) and top-level
>       domains (such as .gnunet) for their operation.  Which makes me
>       wonder, if there're plans, or possibility, that such schemes and
>       domains will be registered (reserved?) with IANA?
> 
>       Alternatively, is it possible to switch to and register a single
>       TLD (such as .p2p, or perhaps .dec, for “decentralized”, or some
>       other), the subdomains for the current P2P networks could be put
>       under (such as: .bit.p2p, .gnunet.p2p, .onion.p2p, etc.)?
> 
>       Also, as I've mentioned earlier, the particular URI syntax
>       employed by GNUnet seems a bit odd.  Namely, as per [1], I'd
>       expect the SCHEME://AUTHORITY/... form to never be used for
>       decentralized identifiers (such as those used by GNUnet), and
>       the form such as SCHEME:NAMESPACE:IDENTIFIER to be used instead.
>       Like:
> 
> gnunet:ecrs:chk:9E4MDN4VULE8KJG6U1C8FKH5HA8C5CHSJTILRTTPGK8MJ6VHORERHE68JU8Q0FDTOH1DGLUJ3NLE99N0ML0N9PIBAGKG7MNPBTT6UKG.1I823C58O3LKS24LLI9KB384LH82LGF9GUQRJHACCUINSCQH36SI4NF88CMAET3T3BHI93D4S0M5CC6MVDL1K8GFKVBN69Q6T307U6O.17992

I don't know where you got this one from (we never did it exactly like
the above, and variations of the above were used *years* ago).  The
current GNUnet URI scheme for files in GNUnet's file-sharing subsystem is:

gnunet://fs/chk/HASH1.HASH2.SIZE

other GNUnet subsystems use other URIs starting also with "gnunet://".
There is a general-purpose URI handler program (gnunet-uri) which can be
called with any GNUnet URI to trigger the appropriate action.

You are right in that we did not register the "gnunet;//" prefix, this
is however more of a problem of finding the time to do it properly.

Also, I don't see the need to combine the question of TLDs and URI
registrations, except that of course we (as in, the GNUnet project)
_plan_ to do register all of those that we use _eventually_.  Note that
we do have registrations for our default port and IPv6 multicast address
already, so we're certainly not totally ignorant of the processes ;-).

Happy hacking!

Christian
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