[Freedombox-discuss] DHTs and Names

[John Walsh]

Hi Everybody,

> http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/DistributedNaming. 

The research on this wiki page is excellent, but I have serious concerns
about the following statement:

"The weakness and centralization/hierarchical structure of the DNS standard
call for the adoption in the project of another method of naming."

When I read this statement, my understanding is that FBX will *not* use the
DNS standard. I always assumed that there would be an FBX naming scheme that
would *supplement* the existing DNS standard, i.e. FBX's would communicate
amongst themselves using some distributed naming scheme, but friends without
an FBX would "connect" using DNS.

I never heard of Darknet until I joined this project and I wouldn't like FBX
to become another "Darknet".

Somebody, please confirm that the project will continue to use DNS? 

-- fiftyfour