- From: Stephane Boyera <boyera@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:16:03 +0200
- To: Henri Asseily <hasseily@telnic.org>
- CC: public-mw4d@w3.org
I'm sorry to jump in this discussion, but while learning about .tel might be interesting, i'm not sure i understand how this relates to the topic of this group ? Stephane Henri Asseily a écrit : >> Doesn't this "Telnic-managed proxy system" threaten to become the next >> Facebook then? I have to friend you with this service >> http://telfriends.tel/login_input.action > > You don't have to. This is simply a convenience system to exchange > public keys and private subdomains (i.e. "here's where you can get my > contact info encrypted for you"). > >> Does not seem like a highly distributed system like the Web is >> supposed to be. http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/ > > We'll be happy to link .tel friending to any distributed system that > simply provides PKI and a unique string, with proper messaging. > Again, you don't need to use the friending system. You could give me > your public key, I'd encrypt the NAPTRs and store them in a special > subdomain, and give you its name. The TelFriends system is just > convenience for this process. > >> The NAPTR triples look a little complicated to me. Isn't it better if >> contact details are aggregated from a homepage with simpler HTML >> markup? A microformat? > > Not at all. The web is horribly misunderstood as a provider of > everything to everyone. It has a lot of overhead and is exceedingly > complex for something as simple as storing key/value pairs. The DNS is > incredibly faster and cheaper for mobile devices. > >> How do you prevent spam? Surely a bad robot can easily trawl .tel >> records for our contact details and bombard us with spam? > > Encrypt the records. That's what privacy is for. Good luck for a spammer > to find your friend's private key and your hidden subdomain for his > data. It's your choice to publicize or not your contact info. And if you > do want to publicize it, it needs to be used as simply as a click to call. > See my sample video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OucbqWtH6kk > It's all real time. Having worked with the web for so long, we forget > that there's a great simple, distributed, fast and ubiquitous database > that we use all day long and forget about: the DNS. > > H > -- Stephane Boyera stephane@w3.org W3C +33 (0) 5 61 86 13 08 BP 93 fax: +33 (0) 4 92 38 78 22 F-06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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