[itipanel] another "namecoin" mention

[Jari Arkko]

That's interesting. I keep hearing about efforts in the DNS and bitcoins space… including some business interest (though not for root).

Bitcoin + something else is a cool theme right now. It will be interesting to see how these play out. Some of it is just marketing.

Jari

On Dec 14, 2013, at 7:00 PM, Paul Vixie <vixie at fsi.io> wrote:

> apparently, the centralized nature of DNS is not universally well loved.
> 
>> Another ambitious project, Namecoin, is a P2P system almost identical
>> to Bitcoin. But instead of currency, it functions as a decentralized
>> replacement for the Internet’s Domain Name System. The D.N.S. is the
>> essential “phone book” that translates a Web site’s typed address
>> (www.newyorker.com) to the corresponding computer’s numerical I.P.
>> address (192.168.1.1). The directory is decentralized by design, but
>> it still has central points of authority: domain registrars, which
>> buy and lease Web addresses to site owners, and the U.S.-based
>> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or I.C.A.N.N.,
>> which controls the distribution of domains.
>> 
>> The infrastructure does allow for large-scale takedowns, like in
>> 2010, when the Department of Justice tried to seize ten domains it
>> believed to be hosting child pornography, but accidentally took down
>> eighty-four thousand innocent Web sites in the process. Instead of
>> centralized registrars, Namecoin uses cryptographic tokens similar to
>> bitcoins to authenticate ownership of “.bit” domains. In theory,
>> these domain names can’t be hijacked by criminals or blocked by
>> governments; no one except the owner can surrender them.
> 
> see:
> 
> http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/12/the-mission-to-decentralize-the-internet.html
> 
> -- 
> Paul Vixie
> Farsight Security
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