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by guywithahat 46 days ago
What you're missing is that they can't charge you for IP's, and someone else already charges you for DNS/domains. They would like to replace your IP's with keys they lookup. It's a cool idea and I would expect that they'll find a market, but I'm not sure this would be a breakthrough product for me
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mtndew4brkfst 46 days ago
Not affiliated, just a happy dev.

Nothing about Iroh usage as operator or end-user entails billable metering of keys, clients, QUIC endpoints, bytes transferred etc and to be honest you could deploy pretty extensive Iroh-based software without ever having a financial relationship with number0.

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guywithahat 45 days ago
Correct, they do not meter keys, it's a subscription. There appears to be a free tier followed by paid tiers for increased usage (https://www.iroh.computer/pricing).

I don't use Iroh so I could be wrong, but the goal is definitely a paid service.

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mtndew4brkfst 45 days ago
The paid component in question here is not necessary to use Iroh, though. You can have elaborate Iroh-based projects entirely based on the OSS components without losing features and without paying anything. There are public relays and self-hosted relays, anything else is the concern of your application(s).

As for anything being a "goal"? They do have dev salaries to pay and they offer managed control planes with SLAs or consultations with the core devs to accomplish that.

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nicebyte 46 days ago
that just sounds like DNS but more centralized and not super human-friendly...
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rklaehn 46 days ago
Iroh endpoint ids are just Ed25519 keypairs. We don't want you to charge per id, and even if we wanted there is no way we could.

We charge you for hosted relays and additional insights into your deployment, but the core is and will always remain free. Everything is licensed MIT and Apache2.

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