Slashdot: Continuing the Distributed DNS System

[Rebecca MacKinnon]

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/18/1247228/continuing-the-distributed-dns-system

*"Last year, piratebay co-founder Peter Sunde gathered coders to begin
a decentralized
dns system<http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/01/1320253/The-Pirate-Bay-Co-Founder-Starting-P2P-DNS>.
This is a direct result of the increasing control which the US government
has over ICANN. The project is called P2P-DNS and according to the project's
wiki, this is how the project is described: 'P2P-DNS is a community project
that will free internet users from imperial control of DNS by ICANN. In
order to prevent unjust prosecution or denial of service, P2P-DNS will
operate as a distributed and less centralized service hosted by the users of
DNS. Today the project
continues<http://activepolitic.com:82/News/2011-10-16/Continuing_the_Distributed_DNS_system.html>,
barely. A majority of interest shifted to
namecoin<http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2011/05/12/namecoin-a-dns-alternative-based-on-bitcoin.html>once
the idea was realized, but coder Caleb
James DeLisle<http://www.google.com/#q=Caleb+James+DeLisle&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvnso&ei=ZliaTvGXHMbf0QG52NimBA&start=0&sa=N&fp=1&biw=1024&bih=673&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&cad=b>continues
on the first project. So far he has DHT nodes and routers worked
out, and awaits help on his IRC
channel<https://cbe003.chat.mibbit.com/?server=irc.efnet.nl:6667&channel=%23cjdns&nick=slashdot1>whenever
volunteers are willing to join."
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Interested in people's views on where these projects are going if anywhere
and whether they are likely to gain traction, and if so under what
circumstances, adn what it potentially means for non-commercial internet
users, particularly activists, whistleblowers, and dissidents.

Thanks.
Rebecca
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Rebecca MacKinnon
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Co-founder, Global Voices <http://globalvoicesonline.org/>
Author, Consent of the Networked <http://consentofthenetworked.com/>
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