[itipanel] another "namecoin" mention

[Elise Gerich]

Perhaps this concept is what Paul Mockapetris was referring to in his
closing comments in Buenos Aires.  He mentioned research into a more
distributed DNS.  "Namecoin" seems to promote that concept. Is it sort of
like the next iteration of the UUCP network of old?

-- Elise





-----Original Message-----
From: Jari Arkko <jari.arkko at piuha.net>
Date: Sunday, December 15, 2013 3:30 AM
To: Paul Vixie <vixie at fsi.io>
Cc: "itipanel at icann.org" <itipanel at icann.org>
Subject: Re: [itipanel] another "namecoin" mention

>That's interesting. I keep hearing about efforts in the DNS and bitcoins
>spaceŠ 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 Internet¹s Domain Name System. The D.N.S. is the
>>> essential ³phone book² that translates a Web site¹s typed address
>>> (www.newyorker.com) to the corresponding computer¹s 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 ³.bit² domains. In theory,
>>> these domain names can¹t 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-dec
>>entralize-the-internet.html
>> 
>> -- 
>> Paul Vixie
>> Farsight Security
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