User:Elifarley/pds

peer domain system

A decentralized name resolution system which provides strong authentication and name conflict prevention.

single record

can be pasted on twitter, discussion forums, web pages and so on

#pdsr domain scope record-type value expiry-date signer digest

• #pdsr magic string
• domain is the name to be resolved
• scope helps prevent name conflicts
• record-type can be a, c
• value can be an ip, standard dns name, other pds name

examples:

#pdsr openfarmtech 20110311 c openfarmtech.org 0 elifarley 2afqgwk6

• expiry is optional
• signer is optional

pdz file

a .pdz file has all records of a given domain. A pds client retrieves the file using a dht like kademlia, bittorrent. Users can also save such files in a specific folder called pdz

name#scope@signer.pdz