Re: Unique handle generation

[Bill Manning <bmanning@isi.edu>]

% 
% At 11.00 -0800 01-03-08, Bill Manning wrote:
% >	How will "handles" support non-ASCII character representations?
% 
% Rathole!

	Tah. Told you it was a curve ball... :)

% >	Endgame... I think I should be able to select the "seed" be which
% >	my Internet-wide, unique handle is created. My seed is used to
% >	generate a unique handle that has at least two other, non-Internet
% >	related "salts".  So my handle might be:
% >
% >		WM-9387-19790922:09:27:33
% 
% Ok, that solves the uniqueness.
% 
% A related question:
% 
% Let's say that this record is stored in whois server at the RIR "A" 
% when you get your first IP-addresses. Now, you go to registrar "B" of 
% TLD-registry "C" and register a domain, should you not be able to 
% have your handle at "A" as pointer to the technical contact for your 
% domain? I rather see that than having one person object for you at A, 
% and one at C (or even, one at A, one at B and one at D which might be 
% a different registry -- paralell with B -- of C).
% 
%     paf

	Again, going to the corporation analogy, I get an 
	employee number. As I am assigned to various operating
	groups and divisions, the "composite" identifer is 
	built as the group+eid, e.g.  my eid is #9387 and
	I am assigned to two operating groups, div7 and
	group33. Inside the group, I am 33-9387 and in the
	division, I am 7-9387.  All it really takes to find
	me is the eid.

	So, the record stored in RIR'A' will be the composite
	of my eid and the RIRid.  When I go to 'B' or 'C',
	I would -NOT- use the composite built from 'A', I'd 
	use the "core" eid.

	

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--bill