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MeraLabs company researchers are developing an architecture for a peer-to-peer name resolution system for networked devices in global IP-networks.
The CTO of MeraLabs, Vladimir Krylov, commented on that: “Lately there have been many suggestions to rethink and reinvent the architecture of the existing global IP-networks, including the ways the information is discovered in the network and, specifically, the way the network devices names are being resolved. The Google company has created an alternative name lookup service (Google Public DNS) and has recently proposed to introduce an extension to the DNS protocol in an attempt to boost the system’s performance.
There are more radical proposals – to switch from the hierarchical name system to a peer-to-peer one. Such solution is appealing to many for different reasons: both technical and political. One can find proposals to create a peer-to-peer network on several open-source communities’ web-sites, for example, Advogato.
The most radical projects go further and change the very principles of computer network organization. Among such projects I could mention Netsukuku, an experimental project that proposes users to organize a global peer-to-peer network themselves, without the mediation of ISPs”.