I see a distributed hosting model with encrypted peer-routed traffic in our future. It would include peer to peer DNS and country neutral hosting. By that I mean redundant servers in multiple jurisdictions.
Without the ability to take servers offline and to firewall traffic based on source/destination, what is an overreaching government to do?
As government interference with the free Internet reaches a critical level, their enforcement and intelligence gathering ability will begin to decrease.
if we are talking about P2P DNS only, it is more like "namecoin". Tor do not have anything like DNS. You can have local directory, but it is more like /etc/hosts
this is not really a name, it is generated key/address/whatever. namecoin allow you to choose name, where in hidden service subsystem you can generate one (although, you probably can setup key generator to get desired name... like vanity bitcoin addresses..)
Without the ability to take servers offline and to firewall traffic based on source/destination, what is an overreaching government to do?
This reminds me of the Laffer curve of taxation vs tax revenue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
As government interference with the free Internet reaches a critical level, their enforcement and intelligence gathering ability will begin to decrease.