SCION-RAINS
RAINS, Another Internet Naming Service (or, a DNS alternative)
RAINS (which recursively stands for RAINS, Another Internet Naming Service) is an alternative name resolution protocol that has been designed with the aim to provide an ideal naming service for the SCION Internet architecture. SCION is one of the most ambitious and realistic alternative Internet architectures currently in play, and has interesting traits such as route control, failure isolation, multipath capabilities and explicit trust information for end-to-end communication.
The RAINS architecture is simple but effective, while it resembles the architecture of DNS it also benefits from being a clean-slate design and provides security across all TLD's - where DNS with DNSSEC fails to provide such capabilities across the board. RAINS, unlike DNS, has no relative clocks: the DNS TTL is replaced by the absolute validity timestamps on the signature. All records are signed.
- The project's own website: https://www.netsys.ovgu.de/
Run by OVGU Magdeburg
This project was funded through the NGI0 Discovery Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 825322.
