RFC 9498 on the GNU Name System
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RFC 9498 on the GNU Name System
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Re: RFC 9498 on the GNU Name System
#2Cool! Seems similar to Handshake domains?
Re: RFC 9498 on the GNU Name System
#3Has anyone been following along with what the plan is for GNS? An RFC is quite cool but are there any zones being distributed over GNS to play around with?
Re: RFC 9498 on the GNU Name System
#4Previous discussion of GNU Name System: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32222360
Re: RFC 9498 on the GNU Name System
#5Cool! Seems similar to Handshake domains?
GNS seems not to replace the actual names like Handshake -- but just the protocol for distributing the names across the network. [1]
Re: RFC 9498 on the GNU Name System
#6I have mixed feelings. A unitary root of naming and the dns is a huge value proposition to walk away from. Fitting gnu names under .alt is only partly ameliorative.
Re: RFC 9498 on the GNU Name System
#7Note that this is in the Independent Submission stream, Informational category:
> This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This is a contribution to the RFC Series, independently of any other RFC stream. The RFC Editor has chosen to publish this document at its discretion and makes no statement about its value for implementation or deployment. Documents approved for publication by the RFC Editor are not candidates for any level of Internet Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 7841.
Re: RFC 9498 on the GNU Name System
#8A distributed naming system intended to work with mesh networks like GNUnet.
GNS does not support names which are simultaneously global, secure and human-readable. Instead, names are either global and not human-readable or not globally unique and human-readable. In GNS, each user manages their own zones and can delegate subdomains to zones managed by other users.
For example, ICANN could just create 'DNS zone' that would embed DNS as a zone into GNS.
Re: RFC 9498 on the GNU Name System
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Re: RFC 9498 on the GNU Name System
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Yep. In 2000 when I saw "GNU" in the name, I got mildly excited.
Now when I see it, I'm expecting it to be semi-abandoned and its developers to care more about ideology than about the technology.