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Dns for chemistry, .chem and tld #11

Open christabor opened 6 years ago

christabor commented 6 years ago

Chemistry and computing networks: using existing dns architecture as a paradigm for chemistry based content addressing

This may just as easily apply to other things, like dna, but I'm not sure. It's a very fuzzy concept.

Essentially I'm thinking like this:

Maybe a proof of concept separate internet network with a set of constrained tlds that function as gateways to various chemicals for informatics, Maybe.

E.g. Leucine Is C6H13NO2

So. Let's use the dns model but slightly tweaked

C6H13NO2 or something similar is the ip address Url is leucine.chem

But that's not that useful, so let's make it so the ip is subnetted in a way that allows element level navigation

C.6.h.13.no.2

Means, carbon subnet location 6, hydrogen subnet location 13, nitrogen subnet location 2

The reason for this is that this encoding method will automatically enforce the rule that similar chemicals will have proximity constraints in the networked world.

E.g. C10h4na2 will be close to c10h2na2, both chemically and physically.

Why is this useful? It's probably not useful at all. But it's just a weird idea I had.