Re: [Sks-devel] IPv6 peering; keydumps annoyingly large

[Matthew Palmer]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 01:06:35AM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> > reviewing, testing, and deploying a significant change to the architecture
> > of the SKS keyserver network...
> 
> It should be noted, incidentally, that these changes would mean it would
> no longer be the SKS network.
> 
> The SKS network is, literally, the *synchronizing* keyserver network.  If
> the system gets changed so it's no longer synchronizing but
> redundancy-reducing, we really need to call it something else.

Weeeelll... technically it's still synchronizing, it's just synchronizing
different subsets to different servers.

Ooooh, there's a name... the SubSet Synchronizing Keyserver Network --
SSSKS.  The logo would *have* to be a snake with a cough.

> So long as we say it's "just a modification to SKS," that lets people
> think the change is small.  Once we say "invent an entirely new keyserver
> protocol because SKS is clearly not what these people want", that gives an
> idea of the scope involved.

Very true.

- Matt

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