To:
george@register.com (George Belotsky)
Cc:
briansp@walid.com (Brian W. Spolarich), paf@cisco.com (Patrik Fältström), shollenbeck@verisign.com (Hollenbeck Scott), ietf-provreg@cafax.se
From:
Bill Manning <bmanning@isi.edu>
Date:
Thu, 8 Mar 2001 10:27:31 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To:
<20010308131327.B29616@register.com> from "George Belotsky" at Mar 08, 2001 01:13:27 PM
Sender:
owner-ietf-provreg@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: Unique handle generation
% % Brian: % % For entities, it would be possible to take a similar approach. % % For example, a domain name might be: <fqdn>+<creating registrar>+<timestamp> self-referal. where/how is an FQDN created?... :) for that matter, the "creating registrar" itself has a "handle" and, as folks have pointed out, registrars themselves are ephemeral. We've had three die in the last ~20 years.... Postel, SRI, NSI... (ok, NIS actually morphed into something else) who is to say that RIPE/APNIC/ARIN or any of the other registries will be existant? I like the idea of a timestamp, but I don't want to remember it as part of my handle. --bill