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by chmike 4657 days ago
My feeling is that we need a neutral and decentralized service for that like the DNS. I want this information hosted in my country and subject to the laws of my country and as a free service like the phone white pages companion of an internet access. Protocol should be open and an internet protocol if a new needs to be defined.

Facebook and Google+ are definitely not the final answer to that need.
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smilekzs 4657 days ago
DNS can be polluted. Again, welcome to China.

Something more decentralized, maybe.

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chmike 4657 days ago
I meant DNS like in the sense of distributed key value database. It should integrate authentication, remote modification capability, etc. I wouldn't use the DNS as is because it wasn't design for that. Such a distributed key value database is easy to implement. The problem are the associated indexes that would be needed. How do we make them distributed and secure ?
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