Excerpts from Tony Li on Tue, Apr 14, 2009 08:52:00PM -0700: > - topology‐independent
by definition > - stable, at discretion of owner Is that a useful attribute? Is the point that they are not necessarily persistent, or that they might be persistent, or ... ? > - unambiguous Is this a statement about scope? Please clarify. > - distinguishable (two for same object?) Does "distinguishable" mean a name only names one object? I don't see why an object can't have multiple names from the same namespace. > - facilitate session‐level referrals That's a statement about a requirement for identifiers used in session control. It's not a requirement for any particular identifier, e.g. it's not a requirement for FQDNs. We need to make a statement about the scope of this exercise, and what requirements it is meant to meet, before proceeding much further. _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
