Re: Unique handle generation

["William Tan" <william.tan@i-dns.net>]

And who would be responsible for maintaining the globally uniqueness of your
personal handle?  It would be reasonable for IANA to maintain registry
handles, but it cannot be a generic object registry.

wil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Manning" <bmanning@isi.edu>
To: <michaelm@netsol.com>
Cc: "Bill Manning" <bmanning@isi.edu>; "Hollenbeck Scott"
<shollenbeck@verisign.com>; <ietf-provreg@cafax.se>
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 2:04 AM
Subject: Re: Unique handle generation


> %>% 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?
> %>
> %> The legecy composite  WM110-ARIN remains
> %> If -I- chose to do business w/ !ARIN, then !ARIN may
> %> create the composite WM110-!ARIN.  If !ARIN wishes
> %> to create the composite anyway, they -MUST- use my
> %> handle, WM110, not create something else.. like BM14
> %> or WM73.
> %
> % So your personal handle is part of a globally unique space that all
> % registries have to coordinate to ensure uniqueness, right?
> %
> % -MM
>
> Unfortunately, yes.
> Just like the registry handles have be be globally unique.
> (It would be confusing to have two registries with the same
> handle... :)
> One must have globally unique space within each object type.
>
>
> --
> --bill