On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 4:46 AM Dick Franks <rwfranks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 23:16, John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> (3) The DNS was not designed for, and has never been good at,
> handling very large zones ...
> ... Perhaps I don't understand your explanation and
> example, but if the subnodes of mesh.arpa are going to be
> callsigns bound to people and this model is successful, then you
> are talking about a zone with four or five billion nodes in it
> today (and growing).
... and integrating w.r.t. time, this inevitably becomes an
unsustainable proposition.
There are plenty of names, short names will be in demand and so short names will have to have an associated premium. For the Latin character set, I propose increasing the price by an order of magnitude for each character less than 9. For Han characters, there would need to be a fair equivalent.
There is no shortage of ten to fifteen character names. 5e12 of 9 character names.
The machine I worked on for my graduate thesis processed 6TB of data a second and LEP does much more. The data volumes are completely feasible.
What is being proposed here is not just a unique identifier for life,
it is also the user's digital tombstone!
Yes. That is the intention.
The prevailing "rental" model will at least ensure that "jck.com" will
be recycled a decent interval after JCK is himself recycled and unable
to shell out his $15.99
But for many people, $15.99 is a week's wage. It is an utterly unconscionable rent to demand. But in my scheme @jck would cost $100,000 (which is why the scheme has to be public goods). But he can be @John_Klensin for $0.10.
Use of callsigns will be visible to others, unlike the ridiculous NFT scheme where for $2.3 million you can buy a URL that might or might not show a crudely drawn picture of an ape which took all of 5 minutes to draw and says 'I am a borderline psychopath who wants everyone to know I used to be rich before I bought this hoping to find a greater fool'.
If the money is going to the cause of building secure software to stop the Internet collapsing and making it available for free, using a short callsign might well have prestige same as buying a ticket to the Met Gala does. But the money has to go to something that is widely recognized as a good cause or the whole scheme is bound to collapse.
