>>6031895
Holy tits, i knew there was going to be a huge announcement sometime this week, but fuck me, that blew my mind.

>not controlled by any one entity

Great, prepare for >9000 different internet standards.

why is this not bigger news?

The internet is dead. Long live the internet.

doesnt this just have to do with domain names and such? doesnt seem like a big deal to me.

This is a good thing.

>>6031891
> Old. I already read this on http://www.anantalk.com/ (anan = anon) last night.
Saw this posted somewhere else...

yeah fuck them DNS has been a PIA because of all these assholes. You know every time Private Sector gets involved with Gov't it is just a fucking Cash Grab and WE the people using the services are the victims. Fucking DNS needs to be decentralized and re-engineered...fuck them.

Yurop here. Just as planned.

what does this specifically mean? Does this only pertain to domain names? If so, who cares if we lost ownership. bye bye moneyz? If there's something im blatantly missed, call me a faggot and explain what's going on that I don't get

>>6032993
Fucking truth.

The whole "lets open the DNS TLDs up LOLOLO" thing pissed me off so much.

Fuck that shit.

Also, DNS needs improved massively.
I posted on here ages ago about a good idea that makes more sense and can stop a fuckton of phishing attempts.
But the change might be too large for people, sadly.

ICANN are self-serving assholes, answerable to nobody and having complete control over the Internet.

Read more at http://www.icannwatch.org/

You can thank them for unicode URLs like
http://縮.jp/

Enjoy typing in domain names in 9001 different languages.

>>6033093
What is so wrong with that?

I'd rather URIs get advanced to include unicode.
How different is seeing that URL compared to seeing something in German, you still don't understand it.

>>6033093
Honestly what exactly is wrong with that? I'll never need to visit a japanese/taiwan/chinese website because I can't read japanese.

>>6033134
what if you want to go on vacation there and they have an english version of the website, too?
Yeah, they need another ASCII domain.

ICANN was pretty independent. This was more putting the string on the ribbon.

>>6033131
One of the biggest problems has been phishing & browsers properly handling IDNs

I think companies like mozilla should create a new open standard for associating IPs with names.

>>6033151
This is why the system needs to be updated badly.

Flipping the URLs around and modifying it to allow for broader domain control would be needed to make the system work at a globally accepted level.

Example
http://country.website-type.domain-name.sub-domainM.sub-domainN/directories
Some new TLDs could be created, such as one for Global.
Shit needs to be enforced or control revoked and everyone else blocks them.
Website Type will get rid of the need for people buying, for example, TV domains for websites based around Television.

>>6033191
no google.

people would adopt it in weeks.

Remember when domains were free and just required an email address?

>>6033151
They do have ASCII domains already. http://縮.jp is the same as http://xn--jj0a.jp .

>>6033222
...what the FUCK are you talking about?

>>6033208
absolutely - you just need a fucking ID like IRC or MMS or XMPP - after that you have no IP problems, better availability and higher security.

The other way is built upon scarcity which only benefits those closest and best capitalized. Whole issue of IP and DNS is completely artificial.

Holy shit,

www.♂.com
www.☺.com
www.∞.com

This isn't so bad... yet :)

>>6033208
Most people don't even know what a URL is, people google websites all the time.
Its why there is so much phishing because they click the first link.
That is why they eventually setup that SafeBrowsing list to block bad sites.

And you don't blame them after seeing all these films and TV showing "the web" as a search box most of the time.

>>6033337
needs more artist formerly known as prince

>>6033227
>>6033337
Wow, that's quite sweet, i never knew they had this system setup already.

>>6033229
I think he likes AOL.

Too bad www. .com isn't up for grabs.

>>6033134
>>6033131

The only thing mildly wrong with it is:

http://www.example.com is very similar to http://www.exAmple.com, where the capital A is some unicode fuck that looks like a lower case a.

Other countries must be singing their praises. CAPITALIST PIGS RELINQUISH INTERNET! WORLD BETTER PLACE! etc.

>>6033445
Ah, very true... not sure how you could fix that.

I guess easily mistaken characters could be highlighted with a different color.
Browsers and the like could detect your location (as they do) and popup an alert if you click on a link which is potentially being used to deceive.

>>6033496
That's actually a really awesome idea

>>6033496
browsers already show the links as unicode at the bottom. It's not a complete solution, but it does provide a way to tell.

>>6033496
The/A way better solution would be to forbid any similar looking characters in domain names. There are not only browsers who use DNS and handling this on an application level is retarded.

Did you know, you can register upside down domains?

Like www.uɐɥɔ4.org, for example.

>>6033572
Yeah, the '4' is totally upside down.

>>6033587
that's what the flip text app gave me. Must be why no one's registered it yet.

Google's Chubby lock service

Google has developed Chubby, a lock service for loosely-coupled distributed systems. It is designed for coarse-grained locking and also provides a limited but reliable distributed file system. Key parts of Google's infrastructure, including Google File System, BigTable, and MapReduce, use Chubby to synchronize accesses to shared resources. Though Chubby was designed as a lock service, it is now heavily used inside Google as a name server, supplanting DNS.

>>6033562
True, but that was just an example.

It would be better for the system to be done down at the lowest levels of networking and have messages that can be sent up to whatever programs so they can handle it.

>>6033669
Why would you want to change things that would be difficult to implement (and will result in reimlpementing the wheel multiple times) when you can just remove the problem in a pragmatic way?
Noone will be really bothered anyway.

DNS stopped being interesting when they stopped having to have the root servers in bunkers with armed guards.

>>6033704
It won't be difficult at all.

All you need to do is add in checks for the current location and have a list of potentially conflicting characters.
Any characters not in the your language throw a warning message towards the program requesting the resource.
This can be controlled through an option in the control panels of the OS and the program too.

Great, so the ultra-creepy, ultra-racist euro central bankers essentially control the DNS root servers now?

Fuck this shit.
Somebody needs to start a second DNS distributed "root," P2P-style. "Free as in Freedom," fuckyear.

>>6033812
fuck yeah!

Long time overdue!

>>6033747
Sure, but each program will have to handle it.
Why jump through all those hoops if you can have it the clean, cheap and pragmatic way?

>>6033812
There are already quite a few alternate DNS systems out there.
Some of them even have their own TLDs, some which caused arguments between the owners and ICANN.

>>6033833
Good.

Didn't know that.

Good. More power to 'em, we need to join in (if it isn't U.S.) Source of your info?