Naming service for the Invisible Internet Protocol
Jeremiah Rogers <[email protected]> Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:51:20 -0400
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.invisiblenet.iip.devel |
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I think the rest of the information infrastructure should be developed on top of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) [1] coupled with a DHT. RDF is flexible and powerful and it's gaining lots of support from the W3C. The Name Service idea as well as the URI idea (ie i2p://jeremiah:www/) work very well within RDF -- it's designed to handle URIs. RDF is also very good for other distributed services we'll later want to have. It would make a great basis for a keyserver, for example, and I have confidence that many centralized services can be replaced with RDF + trust metrics. While RDF doesn't have a massive amount of supporting software at the moment, it's well thought out and (I think) it will work truly shine in a DHT setting. I've been planning to work on DHT with support for RDF and various trust levels for a while now, but haven't had the time. I'd be more than willing to help with this and to explain it. For those who don't know anything about RDF, it's a standardized way of expressing information that, along with a DHT, has the power to work like a giant relational database. -Jeremiah [1] http://www.w3.org/RDF/