At 14:35 16-06-2009, Michael Thomas wrote:
1) People saying that d= is THE IDENTIFIER are overloading the
value: d= a routing
label to a particular DNS subtree. Whether it has anything to do with THE
IDENTIFIER is purely coincidental. The assumption that these
two functions are
identical is bogus. i= was supposed to be this stable value
detached from the
mechanical DNS routing function.
That was the intent. In 2007, during an informal discussion between
some of the participants of this WG, someone asked about "d=" and
"i=". The general view was to take the domain name from the "i=".
d= was more of a way to identify the DNS subtree which the public key
can be retrieved. There was also a long discussion on the mailing
list which lead to "q=". One or more participants argued for a query
infrastructure that was not DNS-based.
Regards,
-sm
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