<story><title>The GNU Name System IETF Draft</title><url>https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-schanzen-gns-01.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>als0</author><text>&amp;gt; GNS is based on the principle of a petname system and builds on ideas from the Simple Distributed Security Infrastructure (SDSI), addressing a central issue with the decentralized mapping of secure identifiers to memorable names: namely the impossibility of providing a global, secure and memorable mapping without a trusted authority.&lt;p&gt;Great to see people learning from SDSI and SPKI, which have largely been forgotten despite their achievements.</text></comment>
<story><title>The GNU Name System IETF Draft</title><url>https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-schanzen-gns-01.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>joosters</author><text>The draft spec mentions DHT in several places long before it defines what exactly it is (in section 4)&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the spec would be better if it added a table of definitions at the top, just like it has a table of names for the cryptographic primitives.</text></comment>