#handlesystem — Public Fediverse posts

@cwebber @aud
Seems like an interesting idea, but I guess I'm missing something: who administers the root namespace? Or if it's rootless, how do you bootstrap a new device onto the network the first time it tries to resolve a name?

If I sound skeptical, it's not lack of interest but because there's been a lot of research and work on this area over the past several decades, e.g. by CNRI on the Handle System, or California Digital Library on ARK, and neither of them have cracked the problem of needing a social organization, at least to run the very top level of the namespace.

(Personally, I'd be pretty happy if we somehow replaced ICANN/DNS with the consortium of libraries that's behind ARK Alliance; I trust them more than I trust Verisign, certainly. But it's a low bar.)
#DNS #ICANN #IANA #HandleSystem