Thanks for sharing OCL. Whaddya know, 7+M registrations from 1.6+M wallets/registrants! Mention made of a Hamburg meeting of blockchain interests with ICANN. Was that an official meeting or sideline convo? Very interesting info indeed. Carlton ============================== *Carlton A Samuels* *Mobile: 876-818-1799Strategy, Process, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround* ============================= On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 at 14:54, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via CPWG < cpwg@icann.org> wrote:

Hello all,

a while ago we had discussions about name space fragmentation as well as blockchain-based name services. One of the members of ISOC UK England recently held a Zoom call that he then recorded on YouTube and I have found the discussion useful - so please find a link below. Kindest regards,

Olivier

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Policy] Name Space Fragmentation Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 12:25:49 +0000 From: Andrew Campling <andrew.campling@419.consulting> <andrew.campling@419.consulting> To: ISPA Policy Team <policy@ispa.org.uk> <policy@ispa.org.uk>, policy@lists.isoc-e.org <policy@lists.isoc-e.org> <policy@lists.isoc-e.org>

Noting the focus of the ISoc community in preventing Internet fragmentation generally, the potential risk of fragmentation of the Internet’s name space, the Domain Name System (DNS), will be of interest.

I was joined on Monday by Georgia Osborn and Nathan Alan of the DNS Research Federation. They gave a presentation on blockchain-based name services and whether they posed a threat to the DNS, after which we had a very useful Q&A session. You can catch a recording of the discussion plus associated information links at https://419.consulting/encrypted-dns/f/with-blockchain-based-name-services-i....

*Andrew*

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Thank you Olivier. A related article "Ethereum Name Service: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" at: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2104.05185 As you would appreciate, mapping "human - readable names" to "machine processable format" is a known challenge. Centralization Vs Decentralization or Distributed is also a known challenge. It has been nice interacting with you on the Root Zone Servers. There are several alternatives to Ethereum Name Service (ENS) such as Unstoppable Domains that allows users to register .crypto domains on the Ethereum and Zilliqa blockchains. I draw good lessons from the "Web Services" that introduced Universal Description, Discovery and Integration [UDDI] based on XML. ENS is a bit more closer to the Server than this approach. Many such ideas have to coexist with DNS. ENS is a specific structuring of connecting names. Your thoughts... Sincerely, Gopal T V 0 9840121302 https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/57545 https://www.facebook.com/gopal.tadepalli ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. T V Gopal Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering College of Engineering Anna University Chennai - 600 025, INDIA Ph : (Off) 22351723 Extn. 3340 (Res) 24454753 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ________________________________ From: CPWG <cpwg-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via CPWG <cpwg@icann.org> Sent: 02 December 2023 01:23 To: cpwg@icann.org <cpwg@icann.org> Subject: [CPWG] Fwd: [Policy] Name Space Fragmentation Hello all, a while ago we had discussions about name space fragmentation as well as blockchain-based name services. One of the members of ISOC UK England recently held a Zoom call that he then recorded on YouTube and I have found the discussion useful - so please find a link below. Kindest regards, Olivier -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Policy] Name Space Fragmentation Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 12:25:49 +0000 From: Andrew Campling <andrew.campling@419.consulting><mailto:andrew.campling@419.consulting> To: ISPA Policy Team <policy@ispa.org.uk><mailto:policy@ispa.org.uk>, policy@lists.isoc-e.org<mailto:policy@lists.isoc-e.org> <policy@lists.isoc-e.org><mailto:policy@lists.isoc-e.org> Noting the focus of the ISoc community in preventing Internet fragmentation generally, the potential risk of fragmentation of the Internet’s name space, the Domain Name System (DNS), will be of interest. I was joined on Monday by Georgia Osborn and Nathan Alan of the DNS Research Federation. They gave a presentation on blockchain-based name services and whether they posed a threat to the DNS, after which we had a very useful Q&A session. You can catch a recording of the discussion plus associated information links at https://419.consulting/encrypted-dns/f/with-blockchain-based-name-services-i.... Andrew