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Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Date:
Wed, 09 Jan 2002 16:49:41 -0500
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Re: From whence we came...
> "Driver's license and registration" and "Passport, please" are both > valid in their contexts, but the results of the query should not be > the same. Treating each type of ID as an "identity blob" with a > mechanism that returns all "identity blobs" to a query for them won't > be a very effective infrastructure. right, and this is why rescap allows a client to query for an arbitrary list of attributes of a resource in a single transaction. DNS would either require a separate query for each identity blob (if each type of blob had its own RR type or its own label) or would require that all identity blobs be returned (if all identity blobs had the same RR type) Keith