Re: A major problem with the Lua ecosystem

["Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>]

On 2018-02-01 09:04 PM, Gregg Reynolds wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2018 4:34 PM, "Soni "They/Them" L." <fakedme@gmail.com 
> <mailto:fakedme@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 2018-02-01 08:30 PM, Paige DePol wrote
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> ... snip...
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>     Just make a random UUID, publish it somewhere, perhaps with a
>     notation "lua-package:UUID", and have it indexed by search engines.
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> Been there, done that. It's called a URN, and you have to have a 
> lookup service.

You aren't required to.

>     This also doesn't depend on DNS
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> But it still depends on some kind of lookup service.

Yes. A lookup service ANYONE can run. Including as a DHT.

>     and the code/UUID could be hosted on e.g. a Tor hidden service
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> Why is this less centralized than DNS?  Secret != Decentrized. You 
> think TOR cannot be cracked?

I said "could", I just mean it doesn't have to be on an ICANN domain. 
Technically it doesn't even have to be on the internet, it could be on a 
book or something :)

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