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 PawSD is a distributed directory system for modern networks. It permits everyone to publish information about themselves and advertise their networked services in a secure and open way, promoting autonomy and independence from centralised naming organisations.
-Compared to DNS (its closest equivalent in current widespread use) it allows you to use completely arbitrary names, doesn't require you to pay money to anyone, is cryptographically verified by default, supports usage of networks other than the Internet, among other benefits. Its main shortcoming is that names are necessarily not globally unique, so you can't just tell someone to go to a particular URL and expect it to work. In practice though, this can be solved through hyperlinks, large "community directories", and is more detrimental for unsolicited advertisements and spam than it is for genuine friendly networking.
+Compared to DNS (its closest equivalent in current widespread use) it allows you to use completely arbitrary names, doesn't require you to pay money to anyone, is cryptographically verified by default, and supports usage of networks other than the Internet, among other benefits. Its main shortcoming is that names are necessarily not globally unique, so you can't just tell someone to go to a particular URL and expect it to work. In practice though, this can be solved through hyperlinks and large "community directories", and it is more detrimental for unsolicited advertisements and spam than it is for genuine friendly networking.
 PawSD also tries to avoid creating any distinction between "administrator" and "end user". As a user, you can create and manage your own zone(s), which lets you publish edge names (see below) and add entries for your website, etc., through the same graphical interface you use to manage your contacts.((okay, this is currently a hypothetical design goal rather than reality, because at this point there aren't any graphical interfaces available :p))