Re: Webmention writeup in The Register

Question I don't know the answer to: is it ever acceptable to attach to a
centralized system (eg Akismet) to provide services like spam prevention?
Or should our goal always be complete decentralization? If the latter is
the case, can complete decentralization ever capture network-wide discovery?

ben

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:41 PM, hhalpin <hhalpin@w3.org> wrote:

> On 2016-02-18 14:03, Ben Werdmüller wrote:
>
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> I'm super-happy to see WebMention get some good press. However, there is a
> point that the article makes rather correctly re spam, and it applies not
> only to WebMention but any federated system.
>
> While unforunately W3C/ERCIM didn't renew my D-CENT contract, we're
> booting up a new research project at INRIA and University College London to
> look at this problem called NEXTLEAP. The same researchers behind it are
> the folks who discovered the TLS attacks and statistical disclosure attacks
> on Tor, so expect some good work in this space to be fed to the W3C
> shortly. I'm sure its a solvable problem.
>
> --
>
> Harry Halpin (W3C/MIT) harry@w3.org
>



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