RE: Unique handle generation

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrik Fältström [mailto:paf@cisco.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 1:34 PM
> To: Hollenbeck, Scott; ietf-provreg@cafax.se
> Subject: RE: Unique handle generation
> 
> 
> At 12.02 -0500 01-03-09, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
> >This might really be worth exploring.  We'd have to come up 
> with the tree,
> >but we may be further along in developing resolution tools.
> 
> A suggestion for this wg:
> 
> See that you have some basic requirements on Handles in the 
> requirements document which is I belive what you are working on now.

The requirements draft currently states that every object must be associated
with a unique identifier, but it doesn't specifically define the format of
the identifier(s).  It's that "what the protocol should do" (in scope) vs.
the "how the protocol should do it" (out of scope) thing again.

<Scott/>