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

[carlo von lynX]

I generally welcome this new development, although

On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 08:45:51AM +0100, Schanzenbach, Martin wrote:
> > 1) IETF doesn't want us to use those, having rejected our draft for 4+
> > years now, so clearly trying to play nice doesn't work.

Which isn't surprising at all that they grant a special condition to
a relevant subsystem of today's Internet, Tor, while joining the
rough consensus in regards of this project of an excentric German
researcher to wait and see if there's any running code and adoption
in the pipeline.

> > 2) ".gnu" confused people. I expect that if you create a nickname
> > "trump" and then start to map the ".trump" TLD will be way more intuitive.
> > 
> > 3) GNS shouldn't be just for ".gnu", we want to replace DNS after all.
> > So this is a step towards liberating all the TLDs and refute Cerf's
> > assertion that ICANN owns the global namespace.  Instead, from now on,
> > GNS can just use _any_ TLD for which it is configured, overriding
> > ICANN/IANA.

These reasons I find more convincing.

> As I understood the significant change is that GNS now initially determines 
> the "root" zone by checking the TLD against local egos, right?
> This is where you lost me. I would have expected the DENICs of the world to 
> still be the authorities over their TLD.

That is against the spirit of GNUnet, to further promote the structures
of authority of the broken Internet. Everyone is empowered to do it for
themselves, for as long as the broken Internet remains legal.

> However, if I must create a local ego and import all the data, _I_ manage the 
> zone. I don't want that.

In the secushare architecture we intend to go a step further: by
aggregating the data of our social neighborhood it is the social
consensus that defines where "BILD" should point to, rather than
the legal entity that pays for the brand.

So by putting the distributed social graph next or on top of GNS, we
are not only bypassing ICANN, we are also obsoleting Google Search.

Things are what the People think it is, which may at times be a
filter bubble, but that depends on the size of secushare adoption
or societal mandate (if we agree on wanting an Internet for the
People and thus require it by law). So the People may think that
BILD should point to bildblog.de rather than bild.de - or produce
a search results page by which 60% recommend the PKEY of a legal
entity that currently identifies as bild.de whereas 30% recommend
bildblog instead.

I think an implementation of the secushare distributed graph is
what GNUnet needs the most to actually provide an alternative to
cloud-based monopolists and ingrain the perspective into the minds
of IETF, general population and legislators - that an Internet
of the People based on GNUnet can actually be achieved.

As always with things that could change the world for the better
but hardly anyone knows and comprehends: it has been a challenge
to find any financing.


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