Chinese University proposes to manage web domains on a blockchain
According to a patent application published Thursday by the US Patent and Trademark Office, the Shenzhen Graduate School at Peking University examines how a "consortium blockchain" can improve the security and efficiency of TLD domains. Although the current standard internet domain name system already Based on a distributed system, there are "technical issues" that the team claims.
For example, the current distribution of root name servers is uneven across the world. As a result, the filing is called:
"Internet users in Asia have a significantly slower domain name resolution rate than users in North America, and when a root name server in Asia works, more than 20 million Internet users are requesting domain name resolution. It also results in a significantly lower reliability in Asian domain name resolution. "
As the blockchain "invention" shares data in a "public and unchangeable way," "trusted agencies and even individuals access access to blockchain information and build a corresponding seed file database to save the mapping relationships between top level and subdomain name systems.
"As a result, all regions can create domain name servers in accordance with their real needs" to ensure fast Internet access without being restricted by other institutions. "The proposed system also distinguishes the two-layer domain name system, each corresponding to a subdomain name system that continues.
How the subdomain system is designed is decided by the proprietor of the TLD. "Therefore, the" archiving state ", the subdomain name system can be designed either as a centralized system or decentralized system in accordance with the wishes of the institutions." Another alleged advantage is that there can be no "consortium or small group" based on a distributed nodes system that can control the entire process.
While cryptocurrency is potentially prone to what is known as an attack on 51 percent (where a device controlling more than half of the network can rewrite transactions in their favor), allowing only "trust to" nodes means the mechanism, whereby miners secure a network "is not required", says archiving.
The team further complements the system as "fully compatible with existing Internet." While a "more concise and effective consensus mechanism" brings security and reliability, and a layered structure "ensures the efficiency and portability of the system."