| From: ac via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | which project are you speaking of Our project was FreeS/WAN https://freeswan.org/ The intent was to opportunistically encrypt the internet. Authentication is the hardest part to do. We decided that a system's ID would be their IP address and the system would declare its public key in the reverse domain for that IP address. This was cute. Out of date now because almost nobody controls their reverse domain. Eventually our system worked but almost nobody cared enough to deploy it. Free software! The code lives on for VPNs, but that was certainly not the project's goal. | and do you happen to know if the | various/any RIR have any standardised protocols and/or implementations? No. PS: the blog post included an embadded YouTube video. I finally watched it. Very good. Vixie: "Keynote: DNS Wars: Episode IV A New Bypass" NANOG 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYosersEBoM&t=101s