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Several events that have taken place in recent months highlight the need for a neutral network and a free Internet: the conviction of several members of The Pirate Bay and, at the local level, to Taringa, the siege of WikiLeaks or the Sinde law and its copies in the rest of the world. With this breeding ground, it is no wonder that some postulates begin to question, such as the management of the DNS root server. |
Currently, the root server is managed by ICANN, a body that frequently yields to pressure from the US government, which ordered on several occasions to eliminate the DNS of some sites that had published links to content protected with copyright. Something similar happens with the different NICs at the local level. Therefore, some initiatives are being put in place to provide the network with an alternative DNS service that is independent from governments and from ICANN itself and local NICs.
The project P2P-DNS, which is still very green, aims to achieve an uncensored and totally independent network. The idea is to flee from the current centralized system and bet on a distributed architecture, based on BitTorrent, and in which security will be guaranteed by signing the transmissions.
In any case, this initiative should be taken with some caution, since, even if an alternative DNS system is developed, this does not imply that it will be implemented overnight, since it is necessary to evaluate factors such as the time of implementation, the speed of response, the HUGE challenges and security issues it could bring, and ultimately performance.
Is there an alternative to the current (centralized) DNS system? What do you think?
Source: Network world