[governance] Uni.X to Uni.X .NETworking - Name Space Mappings to Known Addresses

[Jim Fleming]

When you have large address spaces and network-wide services that support
peer-to-peer services, such as DHT, one can imagine taking a different
approach
to name-space expansion. Even with limited address spaces, one can
demonstrate
that it may be easier to have general solutions free of political forces
that allow
users to more easily expand and navigate the .NET.

One example of this would be the Well-Known TLD Location Service. The TLD
may not be Well-Known, instead, well-known addresses could be used to locate
a TLD. That actually has improved security and stability properties over the
current
system of sending out addresses of insiders who are then expected to make
those
addresses operational. Their claimed ownership of those addresses and the
ties to
the TLDs also create claims of ownership, which may not exist.

In the Well-Known Address approach, one could limit their space to 1 to 6
letter TLDs.
Using the 5-bit Symbol Set (with all letters A to Z and other useful
symbols), there
would be 30 bits in each TLD name, assuming some padding on the left. Add 2
bits to
the 30 bits and one could **locate** one of 4 servers to obtain boot-strap
information
for a TLD.

All of the TLDs would "exist", they may just not respond to queries.

A complete 32-bit address space, the size of the aging legacy research
network, would
be dedicated to TLD boot-strap addressing. It would be up to the core
infrastructure
to properly route those addresses to devices that can respond. One system
could also
respond for any query in that 32-bit space. Users would not be able to
detect the
difference. The main thing is that a consistent interface would be
available, as opposed
to the current kludge of 13 addresses for servers or psuedo-servers,
operated by
unknown parties.

Things change when you have many addresses or address spaces to use for
services
that benefit from simple, consistent and politics-free responses. When
resources are no
longer scarce, the politicians and regulators seem to lose interest.

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