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- usdn: prefix (or whatever) will not in practice be used. I'm all for
- the market deciding between protocols.
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- "That's the nice think about standards- there are so many of them to choose
- from" :-) Universal is as Universal does...
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- Simon:
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- I would say "a server takes x500 UDIs and returns physical UDIs which
- deleiver the goods themselves.", meaning the same thing. (I would
- allow it the option of delivering a set of addresses, not just one.)
- Yes, x500 is heavyweight so one can have a lighter protocol which
- accesses a real x500 engine via a gateway with a large cache.
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- I think we're getting on to the really big problem I've seen in every
- single Doc-ID discussion: every body seems to use the same words to
- mean different things. To me, there's no such thing as a physical UDI.
- There can be a reference to a physical copy of a document named by a
- UDI, but that doesn't seem to be what you mean. confusing everybody
- else. Anybody want to offer up an 'official' notation?
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- Good point. What about versions which split? A great spin-off of
- having versions available is that you can refer to a line number in
- them. A line number in a document which is not frozen is useless.
- [This solves a recurring problem in hypertext systems, when one wants
- to link to part of a document to which one has no write access, and
- which may change].
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- > Here are some suggestions.. Eat hot ASN, Cultural Cringer.
- > [...]
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- We must be careful not to reinvent the wheel: if the USDN problem is
- the same as the phone book problem (which it seems to be) then we
- should pick up on x500.
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- Just a couple of tyres...there should be no problem using those PDUs
- with X.500 (Steve?).
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- and i doubt whether either of those will scale to allow document
- publishing on the net by every kindergarten child etc etc twice a
- minute. That's why I assume x500 is best in theory at least. But tell
- me I'm wrong.
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- Distinguished names are ok, but I'd still rather have an OID associated
- with each naming authority (maybe in the future, everybody will be
- issued with an OID at birth! What's your clearance, citizen?)
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- Simon
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