Date: Thu, 20 Oct 1994 15:02:55 PDT
From: Strasen.ES_AE@xerox.com
Subject: Re: "why isn't IETF using FPIs?"
In-Reply-To: <aacb085503021004998b@[198.133.26.187]>
To: uri@bunyip.com
Message-Id: <"20-Oct-94 15:02:50".*.Steve_Strasen.ES_AE@Xerox.com>
Mitra,
If there is a legacy issue, perhaps another approach would work better.
First off, the Internet (IETF?) could obtain either or both of an object identifier (root) or a registered owner-name and assign object identifiers and/or public identifiers on the basis of that.
Secondly, I don't know what the domain name syntax is, but if it is compatible with the ISO 9070 object-name component syntax you could grandfather existing domain names into the 9070 public identifier space by establishing a registered Internet owner-name (say <Internet-name>) and mapping existing domain names to "<Internet-name>//domain-name" ("//" being the separateor between the owner-name and the object-name. The Internet, as owner of <Internet-name>, could also append one or more owner-name components to <Internet-name) to create additional owner-names.
By the way, "hundreds of thousands . . . Domain names". Really ?!
Re: Your suggestion that the discussion be moved to uri@bunyip.com - I have no problem with that assuming that you think that there is a discussion which should be carried on in a larger forum.
Regards,
//Steve