sezing ICANN ???

[Zbigniew Koziol]

On 29/11/10 10:34 PM, Digimer wrote:
> On 11/29/2010 02:21 PM, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
>> On 29/11/10 10:20 PM, Digimer wrote:
>>> On 11/29/2010 02:12 PM, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
>>>> Madison,
>>>>
>>>> But anyway, someone will have a control of that? Who and how?
>>>>
>>>> Though I did met with that issue, but do not remember details.
>>>
>>> That's the trick, no one person or group would be in charge. It would
>>> be distributed. Authority comes from consensus and can be revoked if
>>> enough peers lose trust.
>>>
>>
>> But anyway, which group will decide? Some details?
>
> *No* group. By concensus. Each server decides which peers he/she 
> trusts. Each trust gives the server a vote. Enough votes and the 
> server is "trusted".
>
> So for example, when a DNS client sends a request, it checks the trust 
> level of the responding server. If the trust is too low, the answer is 
> discarded and a request is made to another server.
>
> Trusted servers could publish the list of other servers that they 
> trust, so clients can keep an up to date list of trusted servers.
>
But this is not true that there is no group of people who will decide.

These who have friendly connections together will decide.

zb.

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