Naming via SDSI
hal@finney.org
hal@finney.org
Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:39:36 -0800
I wrote earlier:
> 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.
I want to clarify that "what is done in SDSI" is maintaining a database
associating local nicknames with keys. SDSI does not map back and
forth between nicknames and keys the way Mark proposes in the PNML.
That is a new and interesting idea which could be another approach to
the name mapping problem.
Hal