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JRFC 36 - SND -- reversed + pathed DNS #36

Open jbenet opened 8 years ago

jbenet commented 8 years ago

I really, really dislike the backwards-to-paths nature of dns. It's not like Unix and other hierarchical file systems didn't exist in 1983. So let's reverse it, and use paths.

# dns
releases.lists.refs.ipfs.io

# snd
ipfs.io/refs/lists/releases
cat /snd/ipfs.io/refs/lists/releases
curl fs://snd/ipfs.io/refs/lists/releases

For all this, we need:

This will help with "the DNS web".