| Thank you. I’m very grateful for the insight into your view, that’s why I’m here. > DNS is distributed and communal, but it's cheap only because it's minimal. Cheap for who? Users using free resolvers or businesses using DNS service providers? Resolvers can choose not to serve/cache NUM answers. If there’s demand for NUM data the market will decide. Google, CF, Quad9 can look after themselves. DNS Service providers could bill by bandwidth rather than per query. Again, the market will decide. > It also presents authentication and integrity challenges for unencrypted uses, as in the case of DNS hijacking by local ISPs or governments. I agree but DoH, DoT, DPRIVE and other initiatives are tackling this problem. > It's a shoehorning of data into a poor fit, and only because someone else is paying for it. Why is it a poor fit? We’re converting a human friendly domain (or NUM URI) into machine-friendly data. That’s the whole purpose of DNS. DNS is comfortable transferring 5kb of data, but most NUM Records will be smaller than DNSSEC responses. In fact, most NUM records are smaller than the original DNS UDP packet limit of 512. > That's what makes this endeavor selfish, not heroic. You're not "freeing" data, just shoving it into some dark corner of the web and hoping to profit from it. We’re making the data available to developers for free, that’s a fact. If DNS TXT records are a dark corner of the internet then I’m pleased to shed some light on that. If rules come about to stop us doing this, so be it. > There have been a lot of actual hard work on the problem of decentralized information, from ipfs to freenet to tor to blockchains to dht... they all have thought about the problem in depth and built the infrastructure to try to make it happen I’m a fan of them all but how many of your non-tech friends have used them? Zero. Realistically how much have any of us used them to do useful things that make our life easier? I really appreciate your point of view and feedback. Clearly we’re on opposite sides of this but as I said, that’s why I’m here. |