To:
George Belotsky <george@register.com>
Cc:
Martin Oldfield <m@mail.tc>, michaelm@netsol.com, "Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>, ietf-provreg@cafax.se
From:
Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com>
Date:
Thu, 15 Mar 2001 12:00:06 -0500
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<20010315115509.C26271@register.com>; from george@register.com on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:55:09AM -0500
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Subject:
Re: Unique handle generation
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:55:09AM -0500, George Belotsky wrote: > Can we automatically generate these URIs and ensure uniqueness > without resorting to some central repository? > > If we can (I don't see why not), then this is potentially a > good approach. Please. No. I've been involved in a lot of these XML/URI discusions and you really don't want to do this. Do you really want to have your system to have to deal with a registry using "mailto:joe@aol.com" as its registry identifier? Allowing any URI means you allow _ANY_ URI here. The issues surrounding the nearly 100 different unregistered URIs that folks are using with no coordination and several conflicts [1][2] make this a currently very badly managed space. This is the identifier the _entire_ provreg system is going to depend on at its _core_. You really don't want it based on such loose identification scheme... -MM [1]http://www.w3.org/Addressing/schemes [2]http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/url-schemes -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Mealling | Vote Libertarian! | www.rwhois.net/michael Sr. Research Engineer | www.ga.lp.org/gwinnett | ICQ#: 14198821 Network Solutions | www.lp.org | michaelm@netsol.com