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Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large
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Matthew Palmer |
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Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large |
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Thu, 2 Jun 2011 15:22:20 +1000 |
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On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 01:06:35AM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> > reviewing, testing, and deploying a significant change to the architecture
> > of the SKS keyserver network...
>
> It should be noted, incidentally, that these changes would mean it would
> no longer be the SKS network.
>
> The SKS network is, literally, the *synchronizing* keyserver network. If
> the system gets changed so it's no longer synchronizing but
> redundancy-reducing, we really need to call it something else.
Weeeelll... technically it's still synchronizing, it's just synchronizing
different subsets to different servers.
Ooooh, there's a name... the SubSet Synchronizing Keyserver Network --
SSSKS. The logo would *have* to be a snake with a cough.
> So long as we say it's "just a modification to SKS," that lets people
> think the change is small. Once we say "invent an entirely new keyserver
> protocol because SKS is clearly not what these people want", that gives an
> idea of the scope involved.
Very true.
- Matt
--
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- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, (continued)
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, 2011/06/01
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, Scott Grayban, 2011/06/01
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP, 2011/06/01
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, Jeff Johnson, 2011/06/01
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, Kiss Gabor (Bitman), 2011/06/02
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, David Benfell, 2011/06/02
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, Robert J. Hansen, 2011/06/02
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, Xian Stannard, 2011/06/01
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, Matthew Palmer, 2011/06/02
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, Robert J. Hansen, 2011/06/02
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large,
Matthew Palmer <=
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, David Shaw, 2011/06/02
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, Jason Harris, 2011/06/04
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, Matthew Palmer, 2011/06/02
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, Matthew Palmer, 2011/06/02
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, Phil Pennock, 2011/06/01
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, Robert J. Hansen, 2011/06/01
- Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large, Matthew Palmer, 2011/06/01