[RFC] Public Name System: Resolution and RDF

A better word would be ‘global’. This is how Marc Stiegler refers to the property of Zooko’s triangle (originally called ‘distributed’).


The above is interesting thought material, by the way. According to the triangle, a global name can not be both memorable and secure. Though memorable one might confuse ‘Bill’, ‘bill’, ‘b1ll’, ‘biII’ (capital I); meaning they are not secure. When limiting the character set (e.g. base32) it might be secure, but not memorable. In the case of SAFE, public names are global (distributed), insecure (not securely unique) and memorable (human-readable).

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