David Hyland-Wood

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icon company UQ icon location Mission Beach, QLD, Australia icon location Engineer, writer, gadfly, occasional lecturer. Linked Data guy @w3c, adjunct A/Prof University of Queensland, researcher in blockchain/Web3 protocols and AI

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Istanbul BFT's design cannot successfully tolerate fail-stop failures

drequinox, You simply cannot refute an issue raised in math by arguing with words. There are only two ways to proceed from here if you wish to refute the safety...

w3id.org dns seems to have < 1 year to go

Hi all, Well, the entire point of w3id.org http://w3id.org/ is that there are many organizations involved. It is true that the DNS registration is a well-known Achilles heel, in that...

w3id.org dns seems to have < 1 year to go

Thanks, Manu! Regards, ## Dave http://about.me/david_wood > On May 7, 2015, at 11:38, Manu Sporny [email protected] wrote: > > Hey all, > > I'm going to take care of this...

w3id.org dns seems to have < 1 year to go

Manu, w3id.org http://w3id.org/ is down, and it appears to be due to DNS. DNS is resolving to the registrar. Regards, ## Dave http://about.me/david_wood > On May 13, 2015, at 24:26,...

is URL rewriting with content negotiation supported?

Hi Nandana, Yes, I don’t see any reason this wouldn’t work unless the Apache wasn’t compiled with RewriteCond support. Try it :) Regards, ## Dave http://about.me/david_wood > On Feb 24,...

How big can we go

To be clear, I also agree that Apache would handle this just fine. Regards, ## Dave http://about.me/david_wood > On May 12, 2015, at 17:09, Manu Sporny [email protected] wrote: > >...

It would be useful to have a copy of the Apache configuration

I appreciate the problem, but there /are/ known attack vectors when file paths are known. There is no compelling reason to risk it as far as I can see.