To:
<budi@alliance.globalnetlink.com>, <ietf-provreg@cafax.se>
From:
"Brian W. Spolarich" <briansp@walid.com>
Date:
Thu, 1 Feb 2001 09:08:37 -0500
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Subject:
RE: Unique handle (was RE: Merging RRP and Whois)
| > Dumb question: Instead of inventing new identifiers or bending | > existing ones in perhaps ungraceful ways, why not use a URL as the | > identifier? | | As with email, I've had URL which is not active anymore. | (Actually, it is now owned by somebody else!) | How do you authenticate the owner of a URL? | I have a domain (thus the URL) that does not belong to me | anymore. Sorry if I was unclear. I wasn't talking about a URL in the sense of something you (necessarily) type in your web browser. I was thinking a bit more generically of using an existing identifier scheme instead of inventing a new one. If you were do to provreg on top of LDAP you could do something like: ldap://registry.internic.net/cn=Brian%20W.%20Spolarich,o=WALID,%20Inc.,c=US according to RFC2255. The escaped spaces are ugly, but ohwell. Authenticating to the provreg service can be handled by any of the established means: x.509 certs, PGP keys, passwords, or whatever. As Bill Manning points out, there are a lot of broad shoulders to stand on here. -bws