[Ghm-discuss] Re: European GNU Hackers Meeting in Paris, 25-28 Aug. 2011

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

ideas, as recommended/advised by ludo:

i'm concerned about the viability of the internet when governments are
not just threatening to cut off both web sites as well as their entire
country but are actually doing it, and corporations can attack free
software projects with the DMCA.

three projects spring to mind that would immediately make this problem
become less of a problem:

* truly peer-to-peer DNS (no, DNS is not truly peer-to-peer, because
queries get sent to root nameservers and down).

* independent routing (e.g. babel) becoming more commonplace, and n2n
(p2p VPN) being more widely promoted and adopted would also help.

* source revision control tools combined with peer-to-peer networking
protocols (gittorrent)

i did an experiment on the latter and have written up a spec; i also
believe that something like oak-dns (written in python) would be
near-trivial to turn into a proof-of-concept truly peer-to-peer
network-distributed DNS, and for icing on the cake you'd add DNSSEC on
top, along with support for opencert certificates and/or web-of-trust
GPG key signing.

 l.