Proposal: GUN URIs to universally reference data

[simonausten]

Proposal: GUN URIs to universally reference data

[crunchysteve]

I like this idea! Definitely a step in the right direction. I've been trying to get interest in a similar idea over here https://github.com/crunchysteve/peer-to-peer-dns-overlay only more generalised for all the hashtable systems, much like the standard DNS works with http ftp webrtc, etc. I only have the knowledge to conceive the model, not to code it, though.

I call it Personal Name Service (PNS) and not requiring any actual registration, just a check for conflict, and reissue at setup.

[amark]

Others can do this if they want, but GUN's architecture specifically chooses using UTF8 as its keyspace so it can support any URIs as a subspace, as in you could have gun.get('http://archive.org') or any other URI/protocol, so then prefixing GUN with gun:// would be problematic.