To:
Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>
cc:
Bill Manning <bmanning@isi.edu>, "Brian W. Spolarich" <briansp@walid.com>, George Belotsky <george@register.com>, Hollenbeck Scott <shollenbeck@verisign.com>, <ietf-provreg@cafax.se>
From:
Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>
Date:
Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:42:41 -0800 (PST)
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<p05100130b6cd8c0e2f6c@[192.168.1.24]>
Sender:
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Subject:
Re: Unique handle generation
all:
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Patrik Fältström wrote:
> At 11.00 -0800 01-03-08, Bill Manning wrote:
> > How will "handles" support non-ASCII character representations?
>
> Rathole!
>
> > 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.
>
let me say one thing, the handle WM-9387-19790922:09:27:33 SUCKS!
The uniqueness SHOULD NOT be obtained by appending a date/timestamp.
Furthermore the handle MAY contain a Registry Identifer and the handle
SHOULD contain information that describes what kind of object it points
to.
For instance WM9387-CT:RIPE
WM - bills initials
9387 incrementor
CT differientiates this hadle as a contact object
RIPE The optional suffex (pick your seporator [%#@:]) of the Registry of
Record for the Object.
-rick