[Freedombox-discuss] Establishing Communicationbetween Freedomboxes

[ian at churchkey.org]

On 07/07/2011 01:27 PM, Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson wrote:
>     I just realised that the FreedomBox Foundation will have to offer a
>     centralised DynamicDNS service for those FreedomBox users with an ISP
>     provided Dynamic IP address. I am a user, but is this a reasonable
>     assumption.
> 
>     If my assumption is correct, then your FrienDNS service could probably
>     piggy-back on top of the FreedomBox service.
> 
> 
> John, I don't think this assumption is correct. It is almost certainly
> true that FreedomBoxes will need to be *able* to use a dynamic DNS
> service, but there is no reason there has to be only one such service,
> and no reason it has to be run by the Foundation.
> 
> More importantly, there are a few core reasons why designing such a
> central, single-point of failure into the system would be a mistake.
> 
> I find it more likely that (in the end) physical FreedomBoxes will be
> offered to end-users by multiple companies, and each company will
> pre-configure their boxes to use a particular set of providers for
> services like dynamic DNS, SMTP relaying and such. Or they will present
> the user with a list of choices during the set-up dialog.
> 
> A "FrienDNS" type service could be one of many services people could
> choose from.

Completely agreed. I've assumed all along that there would be at least
as many different friend-focused directory services as there currently
are social networks, dating sites, dynamic dns sites, etc.

-Ian