Naming via SDSI

Mark S. Miller markm@caplet.com
Tue, 06 Mar 2001 09:17:14 -0800


At 09:05 AM Tuesday 3/6/01, hal@finney.org wrote:
>Mark Miller sent me a pointer to an idea of his that he had proposed
>in another context, http://www.erights.org/elib/capability/pnml.html.
>The idea of his "Pet Name Markup Language" (pnml) is that you pass around
>long, unambiguous names (such as hashes), but let the display software
>substitute short, user-assigned, local nicknames, somewhat similar to
>what is done in SDSI.  Maybe this could eliminate the need for name
>lookup services, at least in some cases (including in particular the
>TLD issue discussed above).

Thanks!

I'm puzzled by this reference to SDSI.  I had thought that SDSI had been 
fully absorbed into SPKI, and AFAIK SPKI has no such mapping from keys back 
to names.  ??


        Cheers,
        --MarkM