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- From: "Mark S. Miller" <markm AT caplet.com>
- To: "Global-Scale Distributed Storage Systems" <bluesky AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Cc: "Global-Scale Distributed Storage Systems" <bluesky AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Naming via SDSI
- Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 09:17:14 -0800
At 09:05 AM Tuesday 3/6/01, hal AT 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
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Re: Naming via SDSI,
hal, 03/06/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Mark S. Miller, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, hal, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Don Marti, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, hal, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Don Marti, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Brandon, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Brandon, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Tony Kimball, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Peter Todd, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Brandon, 03/06/2001
- Re: Naming via SDSI, Brandon, 03/06/2001
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