RE: Unique handle generation

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

At 23.54 +0900 01-03-08, Takeshi Saigoh wrote:
>Patrik,
>
>The contact may associate any number of previosly allocated handles
>into "one" universal handle, the point of authoratitive refernece is
>identified and where a transfer is effected the new handle can associate
>with old handle...

Who is responsible for this old handle? Is a new handle created in 
the new registrar? How long such chains do you force registrars to 
keep track of?

I strongly oppose using any short-lived information (i.e. reuse of an 
attribute value) in the handle itself.

   paf


>
>Ken
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 07:41:27 +0100
>To: Takeshi Saigoh <Ken@REACTO.com>
>From: Patrik F"ptstr°@  <paf@cisco.com>
>Subject: RE: Unique handle generation
>Cc: ietf-provreg@cafax.se
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>At 15.35 +0900 01-03-08, Takeshi Saigoh wrote:
>>Our IOJ system assigns a contact handle by a similar way. ie:
>>
>>    "NIC-<REGISTRAR ID>-<LOCAL USER ID>"
>
>Is this the record which specifies who is the contact for a specific
>registrar?
>
>Or a contact for a object which is created at that registrar, i.e.
>points to a customer of that registrar?
>
>If the latter, what do you do if that object is transferred to a
>different registrar? Do the handle change?
>
>     paf