RE: Unique handle generation

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick H Wesson [mailto:wessorh@ar.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 6:48 PM
> To: Hollenbeck, Scott
> Cc: ietf-provreg@cafax.se
> Subject: RE: Unique handle generation
>
> Scott,
> 
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
[snip]
> >
> > 1. Every object MUST have an associated handle.
> 
> Domain Name objects DO NOT need handles, as the FQDN uniquely 
> identifies
> the object.

True, but the FQDN doesn't identify the registry/repository without a layer
of indirection (you have to know or figure out that .com is in the VeriSign
registry, for example).  Some of the comments in this thread have suggested
that this was one of the reasons that a handle should be required for all
objects.

<Scott/>