Re: [saag] post-X509 cryptographic identities

[Tony Finch <[e-mail]>]

Nico Williams <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Can we move past domainnames?  Maybe.  What is realistic?
>
> One possibility is to do everything via smartphone apps, with app store
> operators acting as curators.  Naming would still be about (trade)marks
> (including icons, at least for those who are not sight-impaired), but we
> might get past domainnames.  Who wants such a world?

When I wonder about this kind of thing, I try to think about the
practicalities: would the OS vendors want to run registries for hundreds
of millions of names themselves, or would they prefer to outsource it?
Would the setup be something like certification authorities? How would the
namespace relate to the market structure: would they be parallel like the
DNS, or unrelated like WebPKI? Would we end up with something like the
CA/B forum, except also responsible for the top-level of the namespace,
and thus effectively performing the same function as ICANN?

Tony.
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