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Namespace the channels

Open haadcode opened this issue 7 years ago • 2 comments

At the moment the channels in orbit are plaintext pubsub topic. We should namespace the channels, eg /orbit.chat/.

@jbenet's proposal: "namespace the pubsub channels you use under some long hash (/devcon2) or a domain name (/devcon2)"

haadcode avatar Oct 10 '16 14:10 haadcode

What about namespacing channels based on organizations (following the slack-like email links) ? i.e. if you have a [email protected] you could get access to all the /@ipfs/something channels ...

I do believe it would be interesting to keep the non name-spaced channels as well though it's an interesting feature for people without need for "private" (whatever that means) discussions

theobat avatar Oct 10 '16 22:10 theobat

@theobat absolutely! This is the idea of namespacing is to be able to limit access. How exactly that happens, no idea :)

Email could be one. Another could be some key-based system. Another could be a "fully managed" solution with blockchain where the organization controls the access.

I do believe it would be interesting to keep the non name-spaced channels as well though it's an interesting feature for people without need for "private"

Agreed.

haadcode avatar Oct 11 '16 15:10 haadcode