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From: Justin Newton <justin@netki.com>
To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposal: extend bip70 with OpenAlias
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:51:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABqynxLKLTyp=+zLOt0dESKfxo2ojKmiQQT6ygZ1eQC5nZM2vA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55B0E719.4030004@electrum.org>


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Thomas,
  I think this is interesting and has some good thoughts behind it.  For
clarity, are you recommending that the "_oa2" portion of the domain name be
"hidden" as a way to make it easier to delegate just wallet names from a
zone?



On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Thomas Voegtlin via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> Le 23/07/2015 11:48, Thomas Voegtlin via bitcoin-dev a écrit :
> >
> > One benefit of having an intermediate "_wallet" level is to allow zone
> > delegation. Is that the reason for that choice?
> >
>
> Thinking about it, I think that it would be better to separate those two
> operations: on one hand, the listing of TXT records under a name, and on
> the other hand, the possibility to use Zone Delegation.
>
> For example, let us use the "_oa2" name (Openalias version 2) when we
> need to introduce an intermediate level, and "_oa2_keys" for key listing.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> _oa2_keys.sample      3600 IN TXT "btc ltc email fullname"
> _btc.sample           3600 IN TXT "bitcoinaddress"
> _ltc.sample           3600 IN TXT "litecoinaddress"
> _btc.sample           3600 IN TXT "otherbitcoinaddress"
> _email.sample         3600 IN TXT "john.smith@googlemail.com"
> _fullname.sample      3600 IN TXT "John Smith"
>
> Zone Delegation: Let us assume example.com wants to delegate all its
> Bitcoin aliases to Netki. We introduce an intermediate level, with the
> "_oa2" name. In the alias, this string is translated as "@"
>
> john._oa2.example.com        <--  will be looked up as john@example.com
> _btc.john._oa2.example.com   <--  bitcoin address of john@example.com
>
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Justin W. Newton
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NetKi, Inc.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-27 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-14 19:07 [bitcoin-dev] Proposal: extend bip70 with OpenAlias Riccardo Spagni
2015-07-17  0:55 ` Justin Newton
2015-07-17  0:58   ` Justin Newton
2015-07-17  1:01   ` Justin Newton
2015-07-17  1:02     ` Justin Newton
2015-07-23  9:48     ` Thomas Voegtlin
2015-07-23 13:07       ` Thomas Voegtlin
2015-07-27 21:51         ` Justin Newton [this message]
2015-07-31 20:34           ` Thomas Voegtlin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-07-27 22:46 Riccardo Spagni
2015-07-18 11:40 Riccardo Spagni
2015-07-18 11:46 ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-17  8:00 Riccardo Spagni
2015-07-18 11:21 ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-16 16:18 Riccardo Spagni
2015-07-14 17:29 Justin Newton
2015-07-18 13:29 ` Thomas Voegtlin
2015-07-18 23:01   ` Justin Newton
2015-07-20  8:56     ` Thomas Voegtlin
2015-07-14  8:29 Riccardo Spagni
2015-07-13 22:31 Mike Hearn
2015-07-14  6:42 ` Thomas Voegtlin
2015-07-14 11:19   ` Milly Bitcoin
2015-07-14 13:13     ` Thomas Voegtlin
2015-07-14 11:45   ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-19 11:18     ` Thomas Voegtlin
2015-07-20 13:46       ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-20 14:32         ` Thomas Voegtlin
2015-07-20 14:42           ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-20 14:52             ` Thomas Voegtlin
2015-07-20 15:14               ` Mike Hearn
2015-07-20 15:34                 ` Thomas Voegtlin
2015-07-20 16:09                   ` Mike Hearn
     [not found] <55A3B52C.9020003@electrum.org>
2015-07-13 13:06 ` Thomas Voegtlin

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