Decentralized Naming Service For Bench dApps, Networks, Wallets and Users.
Designate is very similar to DNS within the central internet. Where DNS correlates a domain name or TLD to a network address. Designate was designed with the same approach of correlation but works dramatically different and expands to help Aero as a decentralized content delivery network (CDN), by giving HRAs (Human-Readable Addressses) that correlate with network-based objects and network-based entities and their UID's (unique identifiers). This can help with the utilization and correlation of network-based objects and network-based entities by using HRAs, rather than long and hard to remember UIDs. Using HRAs for the retreival of network-based objects (videos, text-files, audio, images, folders, etc) makes life easier on developers and can be used by dApp and website developers who are looking to host on the Bench Network and also helps with the importing of Aero-based objects in their dApps and website code, without the need to write extra code and spend extra time developing their dApp, like it would on other networks that don't have Decentralized Designation.
Although Designate is responsible for the registration of a HRA (Human-readable address) network address, it is not responsible for UID addresses that HRA's correlate to. Kepler is responsible for deliving out UIDs to all kinds of network objects, dApps and other things floating across the Bench universe and is responsible for correlating where those objects actually exist or what that address points to. Designate simply points a HRA to a Kepler-based UID, so that's easy for users to remember and utilize, when exploring the Bench Network.
Bench's network has so many moving parts due to its components and its overall purpose. Below are a list of the components that Designate is designed to give human-readable names to access by pointing to their Kepler-based UIDs:
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objects- Objects on the Bench Network means videos, text-files, audio, images, folders, etc.
--videos- Video files uploaded to the network via benOS-based dApps.
--text-files- Text files uploaded to the network via benOS-based dApps.
--audio- Audio files uploaded to the network via benOS-based dApps.
--image- Image files uploaded to the network via benOS-based dApps.
--folder- Folder files uploaded to the network via benOS-based dApps. -
network entities- Network entities on the Bench Network means networks, computers (nodes), dApps, websites, wallets and accounts.
--networkId- Networks all have a UID. Designate can give them a HRA.
--nodeId- Nodes are computers running benOS. Designate can give those computers HRAs.
--dappId- dApps are decentralized apps on the Bench Network. Designate can give them HRAs.
--websiteAddr- Websites can be hosted on the Bench Network. For easy access via Telescope, like web addresses of old, Designate can create HRAs for websites.
--walletAddr- Wallets are created via the benOS native dApp BenchWallet and addresses from even remote networks, can be given an HRA.
--accountId- Every user on the network has a Kepler-generatedaccountId, Designate can give a HRA that correlates to thisaccountId
Designate and Kepler work together, where Kepler hands out UIDs to everything on the Bench Network and Designate hands out HRAs that point to those UIDs. Designate creates the true dWeb, by creating a new TLD system that creates a registration system for decentralized domains that are utilized by websites within the Bench Network and HRAs for File Extensions for files located on the network. The only true downside to a decentralized operating system, is that naming files something other than their auto-generated UIDs, would be to register an HRA for the file.
For example, lets say you have a picture of your mom and dad and Kepler gives it the UID of AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIDEljglXMulz8404XwUBwbhZoWJmqWEH1IsQb9WN3.jpg along with the image extension, correlated to the image-type of the image, in this case .jpg. You could create a HRA for this image through Designate like picture-of-mom-and-dad.jpg. The reason for having to do this, is because a decentralized operating system, doesn't store your files locally, while your local resources my store files of other users locally, you have no access to this data - as you shouldn't. Only the network does. Being that this is the case, there is no "Rename" functionality, when it relates to renaming the name of a file, since Kepler gives it a UID upon creation, so that it can find the location of that file wherever it is in the network. Using Designate, creating a HRA, as long as the HRA hasn't been taken - is possible.
One of Designate's coolest features is that it gives users the ability to create their own TLDs and Extensions. Don't worry, there is no need to go to iCANN lol, custom TLDs and Extension Names can be created instantly and used by anyone at that point, using the Bench Network. To continue with our example from above, lets say you don't want to use the native .jpg HRA Extension Name, you could create .yourname so that you can create the filename mom-dad.johndoe. Even though .johndoe isn't an image file-type, the network realizes that .johndoe is a Designate-based HRA and is able to coorlate that to the base UID generated by Kepler at AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIDEljglXMulz8404XwUBwbhZoWJmqWEH1IsQb9WN3.jpg. This is because Designate is a decentralized naming service but also a decentralized domain name system (DDNS).
Just like Kepler, Designate also has it's own CLI, Designate-CLI, used to claim HRAs through Bench Network's Designate service. Below are examples of how you can use Designate-CLI.
You can easily designate an Account HRA by using the Kepler Account UUID Key, not to be confused with the account_uuid. The -d flag stands for designate-name and nomoreheroes in the example below would be the Account HRA being designated.
# designate account 2fd305ea-912c-405b-bfed-7d98143d0d56 -d nomoreheroes
'nomoreheroes' is available and now designated as a premium name for 2fd305ea-912c-405b-bfed-7d98143d0d56
You can easily dig the original Kepler account data that's related to a Designate Account HRA as is shown in the example below.
# designate account dig -d nomoreheroes
Displaying Kepler account information for designated namespace "nomoreheroes"
┌──────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ kepler uuid │ account_uuid │ wallet_addr │
├──────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 2fd305ea-912c-405b-bfed-7d98143d0d56 │ e4f48839-db29-47c4-abc9-7e33dada1858 │ ba9ce39273b2a1cf04cc948893fea3c8 │
└──────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
uuid: 2fd305ea-912c-405b-bfed-7d98143d0d56
account_uuid: e4f48839-db29-47c4-abc9-7e33dada1858
id: 3ebb0942f24e02c2f69d7d79bf4ace02645d42d247336738c0777084826aaac0
wallet_addr_uni: VYBioijzebrLwDX2K8wkMRLD98iRjbatQV4guXw2iDw=
wallet_addr_sec: upzjknOyoc8EzJSIk/6jyOGLIrS4mpml/hcQoMOaNDE=
uni_key: JGqZMWLzCx+1whWppWIHeCtmGf9VgP8EQ+j2/z3PZy4=
sec_key: ThO6DslXOwZucznK/E0jjUNYR3tw2sySjgW6HXjmd6wkapkxYvMLH7XCFamlYgd4K2YZ/1WA/wRD6Pb/Pc9nLg==
nonce: wcov83GTHsa4SPNABpgIO0Q2LmJVWoLK
hex_key: ba9ce39273b2a1cf04cc948893fea3c8e18b22b4b89a99a5fe1710a0c39a3431
klob: {
uuid: 2fd305ea-912c-405b-bfed-7d98143d0d56,
account_uuid: 'e4f48839-db29-47c4-abc9-7e33dada1858',
time_created: '2018-05-20T07:11:22.526Z',
benchx_uuid: 'b33a4dcd-7057-4618-a635-9ad476cb45c3'
}
benOS is a decentralized operating system, originally based on Linux, uses some design strategies from RedoxOS and even some design concepts from OpenStack, Ethereum and EOS. Although we utilize some of their design strategies, benOS is completely custom from a codebase perspective.
benOS has many components that make the wheels turn. Below are a list of those components:
Nova - Global Decentralized Hypervisor For The Bench Network
Kepler - Global Decentralized Identity Management For The Bench Network
Designate - Global Decentralized Naming Service For The Bench Network
Flutter - Global Decentralized Image Service For The Bench Network
Neutron - Global Network Creation & Management For The Bench Network
- BenchCore - Core Decentralized Network Component For The Bench Network
- BenchChain - Neutron's RootChain On The Bench Network
Aero - Global Object Storage Distributor & Manager For The Bench Network
Explorer - Global dApp Distributor, Manager and Viewer For The Bench Network
benFS - benOS FileSystem
dappJS - dApp Development Kit For The Bench Network
Mercury - benOS Graphical User Interface
Asteroid - benOS Native Programming Language
Meteor - benOS Native IDE for dApp Development
benOS-Microkernel - benOS Microkernel
benOS-Bootloader - benOS Bootloader
ParseArgs - benOS-based Argument Parsing
X - benOS Graphical User Interface
NOTE: There are other pieces under development as well, as our development team grows.
This portion of benOS may use software from other open source libraries. For a full list of software credits and acknowledgements, please visit https://github.com/benchlab/benOS/blob/master/ATTRIBUTES.md.
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