RE: Unique handle generation

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian W. Spolarich [mailto:briansp@walid.com]
>Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 11:29 AM
>To: Hollenbeck, Scott; ietf-provreg@cafax.se
>Subject: RE: Unique handle generation
>
>
>| Handles should be returned when an object is created, and 
>they should be
>| added to the list of attributes associated with an object.  
>Handles should
>| be formed with both a registry-unique local part and a 
>globally-unique
>| registry identifier.  Local part format should be determined 
>by registry
>| policy since these local parts must be registry-unique.  Registry
>| identifiers will be assigned and maintained by IANA.  
>Handles must not be
>| reused within a registry.
>|
>| Sound reasonable?
>
>  Who defines the content in the global space?  Is this left 
>up to IANA to
>decide how to name things or will the specification provide detail?

Patrik and Mark Kosters have/had a whois-related draft that describes
registry identifier maintenance, but I can't seem to find it in the
individual submission archives at the moment.  Some text will probably be
needed in the IANA Considerations section to note that a registry must
request assignment of an identifier from IANA in accordance with some TBD
policy that needs to be documented in a draft.

<Scott/>