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["Alex M (Coyo)" <coyo AT darkdna.net>]

On 04/22/2013 12:09 PM, mike wrote:
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> On 04/22/2013 01:05 PM, Alex M (Coyo) wrote:
> > I'm already working on constructing an alternative root-less
> > Internet,
> That's a significant statement, can you elaborate?

I am not certain it would be wise or responsible of me to speak too much 
regarding this project, but I suppose it would not hurt to say that I 
have been spending much of the last three years aggressively studying on 
my own, as well as relying on the terrifying competence and collective 
knowledge of my friends, in order to begin redesigning a new protocol 
stack for tunneling the old deprecated IPv4, IPv6, and EoMPLS protocols 
over a newer protocol stack that I could have not possibly designed on 
my own.

It borrows many features and traits from label switching, but does away 
with arbitrarily assigned autonomous system numbers and arbitrarily 
assigned address blocks altogether. It also deliberately avoids any 
centralized naming scheme.

Rather, a very large address space is used globally, and to assign 
yourself an address, for each address you wish to use, you generate an 
elliptic curve keypair, the public half of which becomes your address.

Rather than having autonomous system numbers arbitrarily assigned to 
you, you generate an elliptic curve keypair and use the public half for 
the autonomous system number for your network. That keypair also 
functions as a 'contact' address for issues regarding that autonomous 
system, such as abuse complaints.

Rather than relying on a centralized domain root such as ICANN, we can 
use (for now) a blockchain system such as the one used by namecoin for 
the top level domains, making the difficulty hard enough that it takes 
around three months to generate a block, providing a significant 
disincentive to creating top level domains without good reason (such as 
administrative abuse or other such concerns), and using the top level 
domains to point to more traditional name servers such as powerdns and bind.

To tunnel such a name system over opennic, one would need to gateway 
that name hierarchy over a traditional opennic tld specifically for that.

I have not yet given this project a name, but our working name is a bit 
silly, and I don't feel comfortable discussing it at too much a length.

As you might imagine, it's highly experimental.

I hope that helps.