The GNU Name System
draft-schanzen-gns-02
Independent Stream M. Schanzenbach
Internet-Draft GNUnet e.V.
Intended status: Informational C. Grothoff
Expires: 21 April 2021 Berner Fachhochschule
B. Fix
GNUnet e.V.
18 October 2020
The GNU Name System
draft-schanzen-gns-02
Abstract
This document contains the GNU Name System (GNS) technical
specification.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Zone Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Resource Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. Record Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.1. PKEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.2. EDKEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.3. GNS2DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.4. LEHO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.5. NICK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.6. BOX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5.7. VPN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6. Publishing Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.1. DHT Key Derivations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.2. Resource Records Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
6.3. Record Data Encryption and Decryption . . . . . . . . . . 19
7. Internationalization and Character Encoding . . . . . . . . . 20
8. Name Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
8.1. Recursion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
8.2. Record Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
8.2.1. Encountering zone delegation records . . . . . . . . 22
8.2.2. GNS2DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
8.2.3. CNAME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
8.2.4. BOX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
8.2.5. VPN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
8.2.6. NICK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
9. Zone Revocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
10. Determining the Root Zone and Zone Governance . . . . . . . . 29
11. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
11.1. Cryptography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
11.2. Abuse mitigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
11.3. Zone management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
11.4. Impact of underlying DHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
11.5. Revocations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
12. GANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
13. Test Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
14. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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