[opennic-discuss] Vote to keep or drop peering with NameCoin

Jeff Taylor <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Jun 2019 20:47:20 -0600
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In addition to the points I recently brought up about NameCoin, Fusl 
also discovered the following article where it appears one of their own 
developers criticizes OpeNIC directly for making their .bit domains 
available to our users, however nobody from their group have ever 
contacted us to say there were any problems with our implementation or 
even ask us to stop peering with them.

https://namecoin.org/2018/09/24/how-centralized-inproxies-make-everyone-less-safe-case-study.html

The previous discussion on this topic was short-lived, but seemed to 
produce little in the way of support or dissent for .bit domains, 
possibly meaning that there is simply very little interest in .bit overall.

At this time I would like to call for a vote on whether we should keep 
peering with NameCoin or drop all support.  The vote can be found here: 
https://wiki.opennic.org/votings/drop_namecoin

Due to the low volume of chat and emails at this time of year, I have 
set the vote for a two-week period, ending on June 25th. Hopefully that 
will give everyone interested a chance to weigh in. For those not 
familiar with the voting page, please use your OpenNIC user account 
credentials (the same one you use on the servers page or to sign in to 
be.libre) to log in to the wiki in order to cast your vote.  Select if 
you want to keep or drop .bit, then click the grey "Your Vote" button.

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    In addition to the points I recently brought up about NameCoin, Fusl
    also discovered the following article where it appears one of their
    own developers criticizes OpeNIC directly for making their .bit
    domains available to our users, however nobody from their group have
    ever contacted us to say there were any problems with our
    implementation or even ask us to stop peering with them.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://namecoin.org/2018/09/24/how-centralized-inproxies-make-everyone-less-safe-case-study.html">https://namecoin.org/2018/09/24/how-centralized-inproxies-make-everyone-less-safe-case-study.html</a><br>
    <br>
    The previous discussion on this topic was short-lived, but seemed to
    produce little in the way of support or dissent for .bit domains,
    possibly meaning that there is simply very little interest in .bit
    overall.<br>
    <br>
    At this time I would like to call for a vote on whether we should
    keep peering with NameCoin or drop all support.  The vote can be
    found here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.opennic.org/votings/drop_namecoin">https://wiki.opennic.org/votings/drop_namecoin</a><br>
    <br>
    Due to the low volume of chat and emails at this time of year, I
    have set the vote for a two-week period, ending on June 25th. 
    Hopefully that will give everyone interested a chance to weigh in. 
    For those not familiar with the voting page, please use your OpenNIC
    user account credentials (the same one you use on the servers page
    or to sign in to be.libre) to log in to the wiki in order to cast
    your vote.  Select if you want to keep or drop .bit, then click the
    grey "Your Vote" button.<br>
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