John,
3. From the summary, I cannot tell what the actual "identity" is,
where it comes from, and whether or how it is assured uniqueness.
Well, 'identity' is a bit of a philosophical term. Perhaps it is simpler
to deal
with an 'identifier'. But, your question relates to implementation issues,
rather than design requirements.
My #3 question was really 3 questions, starting with concept and ending with a
technical detail. Since the word identity is quite literally central to D*I*X,
the meaning of identity needs to be more than philosophical.
In the implementation detailed in dmd0 the identifier is a defined to be
a URI, and a URL mechanism is detailed whereby a Delegation Tag is
placed in the page at the end of the URL that delegates authentication
to a list of Homesites. So, where it comes from is essentially a web
All of this is fine-grained detail. That nature of the questions I am asking
are intended to provide answers that non-technical people can understand.
Non-technical people are going to be using it, so it would help if the nature of
this stuff could be explained to them, without language like delegation tag, etc.
server,
and its uniqueness is based on its reuse of the domain namespace.
ok. so, domain name, but something within the domain name (nonce, or whatever),
to ensure uniqueness. Hence, each DNS administration is a sub-registry for DIX
identities.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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