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  • From: "Lucas Gonze" <lucas AT worldos.com>
  • To: "Global-Scale Distributed Storage Systems" <bluesky AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Naming via SDSI
  • Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 12:22:23 -0500


To get human-friendly IDs, it is not hard to have a namespace provider map
names
to hashes.

IMHO unless the UN runs ICANN there is no solution to the political problem.
Always allow the user to specify a namespace (either implicitly or explicitly)
and the problem goes away.

- Lucas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-bluesky-127943 AT ibiblio.org
> [mailto:bounce-bluesky-127943 AT ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Brandon
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 3:52 AM
> To: Global-Scale Distributed Storage Systems
> Subject: Re: Naming via SDSI
>
>
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> > http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/03/06/mir.fungus.reut/index.html
> >
> > Given this primitive level of automation, which is already necessary
> > for links to be passed around at all, a link with a 160 bit unforgeable
> > number can look like d787ef5c05460da6cf3d6aa1633655d8861e20f1 in hex or
> > like 14fvXAVGDabPPWqhYzZV2IYeIPE in a base-64 encoding, which is easy to
> > cut and paste; easier in fact than modern URLs which often span more than
> > one line and get forcibly line-wrapped by brain-damaged email software.
>
> The URL is still easier to communicate by voice than then hex or
> base-64. I think that the importance of a voice-friendly encoding is often
> overlooked because people underestimate the amount of URL information
> communicate over the phone and in person. Of course, I don't have any
> particular ideas on how to convert 160-bit hashes into more voice-friendly
> encodings, but the least you could do is use hex instead of base-64.
>
>
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