To:
ietf-provreg@cafax.se
From:
Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
Date:
Thu, 15 Mar 2001 18:00:30 +0200
In-Reply-To:
<20010315103014.B23830@register.com>; from George Belotsky on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:30:14AM -0500
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lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Subject:
Re: Unique handle generation
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 10:30:14AM -0500, George Belotsky wrote: > > We may be 'deja vu' on the questions, but not on the answers. > I'm not sure about the merits, but has anyone actually considered distinguished names, as in X.500 (perish the thought) but more plausibly in LDAP? I should think that a flattenable hierarchy as well as the locally, hopefully globally unique "relative distinguished names" when the localising qualifier is dropped, would address most of the needs raised in this forum. Note that attempts to map the DNS onto LDAP have been made with (to my limited knowledge) some degree of success. And anything has been mapped to X.500, but let's not go there :-) At the very minimum, this is understood technology, and humanly readable DNs are also implicitly globally unique. I find LDAP a little English-language parochial, but so is DNS, addressing internationalisation of both would in any event happily occur simultaneously. Also, I have lost track of LDAP and I'm still stuck in the version 1 warp, I have no idea what the version 2 cat actually brought in. ++L