Re: [GNUnet-developers] Goodbye ".gnu"

[Christian Grothoff]

On 03/04/2018 01:57 PM, Schanzenbach, Martin wrote:
>> I don't understand how you can delegate TLDs.
>> In GNUnet currently we have identities (=local namespaces).
>> As I understand it, those are now the TLDs handled locally via GNS.
>> How can I delegate a TLD to another entity such as "de"?

$ gnunet-config -s gns | grep ^\\.
.pin = DWJASSPE33MRN8T6Q0PENRNBTQY0E6ZYGTRCDP5DGPBF2CRJMJEG

This works like a PKEY record for the root zone, delegating ".pin" to
the zone operated by gnunet.org

>> If I add a new identity called "de", then _I_ must populate that namespace. 
>> I cannot delegate it anymore.

Correct. As I wrote, there are two ways to do this:
(1) you create an identity ("de"), then you have the private key and
    must populate
(2) you create a configuration file entry mapping TLD to public key,
    then someone else is granted control.

Basically, in scenario (2) your configuration file overrides the IANA
root zone.

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