RE: Unique handle generation

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

Bill,

I'm not sure I understand the point you're trying to make in the context of
admin repository changes over time.

What happens to your example handle if the admin function is one day moved
from ARIN to some other administrative entity (call it !ARIN for the sake of
argument), but the person and prefix remain constant?  Does the handle
remain WM110-ARIN, or must it change to WM110-!ARIN?

<Scott/>

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Manning [mailto:bmanning@ISI.EDU]
>Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 12:05 PM
>To: shollenbeck@verisign.com
>Cc: pgeorge@saraf.com; ietf-provreg@cafax.se
>Subject: Re: Unique handle generation
>
>
> some time back (last week) I mentioned that each object has its own
>handle. One of those objects is the administrative repository. We have
>documented evidence that administrative repositories have changed while
>the objects it has chosen to imbed have not changed. 
>
>Please consider that some "handles" are a concatination of "atomic"
>handles. e.g.
>
>Person:  WM110
>Admin Repository: ARIN
>	these two are concatinated to form WM110-ARIN and that composite
>	is bound to:
>---
>Prefix: 192.168.0.0/16