> Why would this be an IETF document when the GNUnet protocol itself isn't?
Nothing in the spec suggests it must run on GNUnet. This is almost like asking why should IETF standardize JSON-schema when gRPC is not standardized. One thing does not require the other or depend on the other.
> "This document does not specifiy the properties of the underlying distributed hash table (DHT) which is required by any GNS implementation."
Well they do specify the interfaces, why should they care about the impliementation?
> GNS resource records are published in a distributed hash table (DHT). We assume that a DHT provides two functions: GET(key) and PUT(key,value).
Nothing in the spec suggests it must run on GNUnet. This is almost like asking why should IETF standardize JSON-schema when gRPC is not standardized. One thing does not require the other or depend on the other.
> "This document does not specifiy the properties of the underlying distributed hash table (DHT) which is required by any GNS implementation."
Well they do specify the interfaces, why should they care about the impliementation?
> GNS resource records are published in a distributed hash table (DHT). We assume that a DHT provides two functions: GET(key) and PUT(key,value).
> Okay... so...
So what?