To:
Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>
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<ietf-provreg@cafax.se>
From:
Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
Date:
Wed, 05 Sep 2001 15:00:18 -0700
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Subject:
Re: Questions about containers
Let me test out my own perspective on containers: Computer science loves deferred binding. Although it can have serious efficiency problems, it benefits from allowing accuracy and dynamic "configuration". Within the registration world, there is need to support vastly different business models, as wells as what might be called different registration models. Therefore we want to be very, very careful about the relationships that we require -- as opposed to allow -- between data objects. The container construct is a way of decoupling one or more dependencies that the standard might otherwise have to impose. d/ ---------- Dave Crocker <mailto:dcrocker@brandenburg.com> Brandenburg InternetWorking <http://www.brandenburg.com> tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.273.6464