Justin Newton [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-07-27 📝 Original message:Thomas, I think this is ...

📅 Original date posted:2015-07-27
📝 Original message: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 at 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 at 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 at example.com
> _btc.john._oa2.example.com <-- bitcoin address of john at example.com
>
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