[Freedombox-discuss] distributed DNS
bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org
bertagaz at ptitcanardnoir.org
Wed Mar 16 10:54:03 UTC 2011
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:25:24PM -0400, Boaz wrote:
> Whatever arrangements we make for freedom box friendly DNS service
> should involve costing almost no to no money ($15 per year or whatever
> isn't a lot, but it is a lot compared to the unfree services which
> people are currently using completely free of charge). Maybe the cost
> of the first 10 years of DNS service from one of a whole list of
> participating service providers should be rolled up into the price of
> the device? Just a thought.
That mean having an API able to understand every supported registrar
website so that it can put the informations in the form they belong in the
registration page. Quite a job! :)
> Appropriate arrangements should also involve extremely low hassle
> domain registration. Something like, you choose a provider from a
> pull down menu, or type in one that you know about, type in your
> desired second (or lower) level domain, and hit enter, and it
> automatically contacts the provider, registers the domain, and points
> it to your box. Do people think that could be possible? Perhaps
> using lower level domains, as some have suggested?
>
> But more important, I think, than trying to find a good provider is to
> make it as easy as possible for people to switch from misbehaving
> providers. One feature that would help tremendously (especially if
> we're going to create a system of almost or completely free of charge,
> easy to register subdomains), one feature which a few people have
> already proposed, is a machine language for your box, using the proper
> cryptographic credentials, to inform your friends that you, who used
> to be found at foo.example.com, will now be found at foo.bar.net. In
> other words, your real identity as far as your friends are concerned
> is your key. Your domain name is just a way for your friends to find
> you in the network. If your domain name has changed, why should you
> need to tell your actual human friends about this. Just tell their
> boxes and let them take care of it.
Well, that could be one of your gnupg UID, a bit like in monkeysphere.
> I wish I already had this feature for email. If I have an email
> address boaz at example.com, and example.com does something to upset me,
> and I hate example.com, and I never want to have any further dealings
> with those bastards at example.com, there's nothing I can do. I've
> already told three hundred people who I want to be able to contact me
> for all time, that my address is boaz at example.com. I'll have to keep
> monitoring boaz at example.com forever. Unless I want to do one of these
> terrible mass mailings that everyone hates (I've received several of
> these, and it's a sorry sight).
You already have something like that with gnupg in some ways. If you get a
new email, you can add an UID to your key and revoke the UID corresponding
to the previous email.
bert.
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