ENS name: kn00t.eth
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:
I am seeking for ways to take responsibility for the tools I create as
an information technology researcher and therefore I put myself forward
to help building the number assignment clearinghouse of the Web3.
For decades now we observe and endure rising inequality, stagnation and the
manifestaton of the data sharing economy caused by just a few initial
design flaws:
In 1998 the pioneering, voluntary work of Jon Postel was replaced by a
private non-profit company to henceforth coordinate the assignment of
names (TLDs) to numbers (IP addresses).
Imagine how the internet would look like today, if we had DAOs in place
at that time to make coordinated, informed and joint decisions about
named entities.
Wallets can wrap almost everything now. Tokens (“programmable money”)
and smart contracts codify and efficiently scale trust and define social
identity for humans.
Postel’s robustness principle: “Be liberal in what you accept, and
conservative in what you send” when applied for governance tokens almost
seems like trivially true: His ingenious insight when combined with
decentralized, crypto-native technology can eventually be turned into
flexible, interoperable, scalable and community-owned (naming) systems.
Let’s begin to decentralize the allocation of names to wallet adresses.
Let’s build a cross-chain naming system for people to navigate the
Metaverse. Let’s proof Postel’s principle right.
My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution
- Name ownership shall not be infringed: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) Agree
- Fees are primarily an incentive mechanism: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) Agree
- Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) Agree
- ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) Agree
My web3 qualifications / skills:
I am a technology-driven social individual. I aquired some technical
skills along the way. I worked in IT infrastructure and research data
projects for several years, followed by medical data interoperability
work and data-driven research for medical technology, tumor research,
microscopy and the humanities. I recently founded Alas DAO to advance
education as a public good with focus on STEAM education (science,
technology, arts, engineering and math) for children and teenagers from
disadvantaged backgrounds.