What I've read so far on Freedombox doesn't seem to cover the issues of naming and discovery of nodes. <div><br></div><div>DNS, as we currently have it, is an inherently hierarchical naming system. It has a single point of failure - or capture - in the root name servers. Even if freedombox used a different root name server from the standard ICANN controlled ones, it would still be something for hostiles to attack in order to disrupt or disable the worldwide freedombox network, or to capture individual node addresses within the freedombox space.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The alternative is a distributed peer-to-peer naming and discovery system such as the IDONS proposal, <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><a href="http://www.idons.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(7, 77, 143); ">http://www.idons.org</a>. It seems to me that would have a very natural fit with what is being proposed for freedombox.</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Apologies if people have already thought of (and perhaps discarded) this idea.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Cheers</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Simon<br clear="all">
</span></font><br>-- <br>Simon Brooke :: <a href="http://www.journeyman.cc/~simon/">http://www.journeyman.cc/~simon/</a><br><br> ;; Semper in faecibus sumus, sole profundum variat.<br><br>
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