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eip: 634
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title: Storage of text records in ENS
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author: Richard Moore (@ricmoo)
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type: Standards Track
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discussions-to: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/2439
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category: ERC
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status: Draft
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created: 2017-05-17
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---
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## Abstract
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This EIP defines a resolver profile for ENS that permits the lookup of arbitrary key-value
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text data. This allows ENS name holders to associate e-mail addresses, URLs and other
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informational data with a ENS name.
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## Motivation
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There is often a desire for human-readable metadata to be associated with otherwise
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machine-driven data; used for debugging, maintenance, reporting and general information.
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In this EIP we define a simple resolver profile for ENS that permits ENS names to
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associate arbitrary key-value text.
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## Specification
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### Resolver Profile
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A new resolver interface is defined, consisting of the following method:
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function text(bytes32 node, string key) constant returns (string text);
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The interface ID of this interface is 0x59d1d43c.
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The `text` data may be any arbitrary UTF-8 string. If the key is not present, the empty string
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must be returned.
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### Global Keys
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Global Keys must be made up of lowercase letters, numbers and
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the hyphen (-).
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- **avatar** - a URL to an image used as an avatar or logo
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- **description** - A description of the name
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- **display** - a canonical display name for the ENS name; this MUST match the ENS name when its case is folded, and clients should ignore this value if it does not (e.g. `"ricmoo.eth"` could set this to `"RicMoo.eth"`)
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- **email** - an e-mail address
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- **keywords** - A list of comma-separated keywords, ordered by most significant first; clients that interpresent this field may choose a threshold beyond which to ignore
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- **mail** - A physical mailing address
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- **notice** - A notice regarding this name
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- **location** - A generic location (e.g. `"Toronto, Canada"`)
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- **phone** - A phone number as an [E.164](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164) string
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- **url** - a website URL
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### Service Keys
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Service Keys must be made up of a *reverse dot notation* for
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a namespace which the service owns, for example, DNS names
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(e.g. `.com`, `.io`, etc) or ENS name (i.e. `.eth`). Service
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Keys must contain at least one dot.
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This allows new services to start using their own keys without
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worrying about colliding with existing services and also means
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new services do not need to update this document.
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The following services are common, which is why recommendations are
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provided here, but ideally a service would declare its own key.
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- **com.github** - a GitHub username
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- **com.peepeth** - a Peepeth username
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- **com.linkedin** - a LinkedIn username
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- **com.twitter** - a Twitter username
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- **io.keybase** - a Keybase username
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- **org.telegram** - a Telegram username
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This technique also allows for a service owner to specify a hierarchy
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for their keys, such as:
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- **com.example.users**
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- **com.example.groups**
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- **com.example.groups.public**
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- **com.example.groups.private**
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### Legacy Keys
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The following keys were specified in earlier versions of this EIP,
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which is still in draft.
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Their use is not likely very wide, but applications attempting
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maximal compatibility may wish to query these keys as a fallback
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if the above replacement keys fail.
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- **vnd.github** - a GitHub username (renamed to `com.github`)
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- **vnd.peepeth** - a peepeth username (renamced to `com.peepeth`)
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- **vnd.twitter** - a twitter username (renamed to `com.twitter`)
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## Rationale
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### Application-specific vs general-purpose record types
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Rather than define a large number of specific record types (each for generally human-readable
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data) such as `url` and `email`, we follow an adapted model of DNS's `TXT` records, which allow
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for a general keys and values, allowing future extension without adjusting the resolver, while
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allowing applications to use custom keys for their own purposes.
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## Backwards Compatibility
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Not applicable.
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## Test Cases
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TBD
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## Implementation
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None yet.
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## Copyright
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Copyright and related rights waived via [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
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