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Subject: [URN] a possible security architecture for URNs
From: Larry Masinter <[e-mail]>
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Check out
Rivest & Lampson, "A Simple Distributed Security Infrastructure"
    http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/sdsi10.html

for a proposal for security of name bindings that allows for
delegation. It may be that the only way to have both secure and
long-lived names is by resorting to an authority that asserts
name-bindings where the authority has a longer lifetime than the
binding, e.g.,

   LOC's Melville's MobyDick

With a suitable syntax, there's even a place for 'relative URNs'.

Regards,

Larry