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Bill Manning <bmanning@isi.edu>
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William Tan <william.tan@i-dns.net>, ietf-provreg@cafax.se
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George Belotsky <george@register.com>
Date:
Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:34:18 -0500
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Subject:
Re: Unique handle generation
Readability is only partially sacrificed: the owner of an object can still use the readable handle, as can anyone else he/she gives the plaintext representation to. Thus, we are actually not too badly off as far as readability is concerned. George. On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 01:11:01PM -0800, Bill Manning wrote: > % > % > Yup... Thats pretty much my take as well. > % > #1 has not worked well > % > #2 is ... operationally challenging ... :) > % > #3 might be the most fun to work on. > % > % I'm for the idea of uuid-like hashes. Readability has to be sacrificed, I > % don't see any way out. However, handles may be hidden from the end users, > % so it might not be an issue after all. > % > % > % wil. > > See Michaels comments wrt hashing. It would be "reasonable" > to consider composite handles being hashed. > > -- > --bill -- ----------------------------- George Belotsky Senior Software Architect Register.com, inc. george@register.com 212-798-9127 (phone) 212-798-9876 (fax)