> > It just occured to me that one could use NNTP to distribute and query
> > the database, just specify a mapping between MD5-hashes (or whatever)
> > and message IDs, create an alt newsgroup, and disable the expiry on
> Why not use DNS? It's already there. It's scalable, distributed, workable
> over proxies, etc. All you have to do is %-encode the data stream. Just like
> reverse lookups..
DNS is hierarchical organized, CDs are not. The way Message IDs are
used in NNTP to distribute and access news articles is much closer to
what is needed for CDs than DNS is.
Andreas
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