To:
George Belotsky <george@register.com>, Bill Manning <bmanning@isi.edu>
Cc:
"Brian W. Spolarich" <briansp@walid.com>, Hollenbeck Scott <shollenbeck@verisign.com>, ietf-provreg@cafax.se
From:
Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>
Date:
Thu, 8 Mar 2001 20:59:13 +0100
In-Reply-To:
<20010308144433.D29616@register.com>
Sender:
owner-ietf-provreg@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: Unique handle generation
At 14.44 -0500 01-03-08, George Belotsky wrote:
> (i) Handles should be easy to remember/readable;
> (ii) Handles should identify objects uniquely;
> (iii) It's probably a bad idea for the handles to change.
>
>Does everyone agree with the above list?
I would add (iv) It's not bad if the Handle can be used for finding
the record. This so one can have only one person record somewhere,
and reference that from all other objects I "own", instead of being
forced to create one person record per registry (or even registrar).
paf