[quote=“janitor, post:31, topic:4235, full:true”]
In my proposal it merely sells fancy aliases (in line with those proposals who want to add aliasing). All native addresses (alphanumeric SAFE equivalent of biy0wp6edsf.onion) would be usable at all times and continue to work independently of the alias system.
The overlay system is what was proposed by Christopher in RFC - Decentralised Naming System), that is the part that I’d put up for auction if people really need user friendly host names (personally I don’t see a need for it).[/quote]
@janitor, I do understand.
So long as the biy0wp6edsf.onion is supported anything can be built on top. Good.
On the other hand we may need to be very careful. If you decree now that there is a single global namespace then this is what is going to get encoded in SafeBrowser and other software:
- web pages will link to each other via aliases
- web services will use aliases for endpiont information
- aliases will be printed in newspaper ads
There seems to be a lot of debate on how to replace DNS.
First-come-first-served? Auctions? An LTD feeding money back to Foundation?
Wouldn’t it be wise to leave the door for future open? To test alternatives in real life?
We’re software people, we know that nothing can replace testing.