ASN.1 OIDs are quasi-decentralized in this way. Standardized in 1984. On 9/26/13 8:38 PM, David Barbour wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Martin McClure > <martin.mccl...@gemtalksystems.com > <mailto:martin.mccl...@gemtalksystems.com>> wrote: > ... > > Creating unique IDs can scale quite well with a central authority. You > simply have the central authority hand out the first few bits of the > identity (e.g. a domain name), then the owner of the domain becomes an > authority for how the next few bits are distributed (e.g. the > subdomains), and so on. This 'splitting' technique can go to an > arbitrary depth but since it is exponential - and potentially very flat > - it rarely needs to be deep.
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