On 2002-11-04 11:01:23 -0500, Michael Young wrote:
I see... I had interpreted the "IETF name space" as an existing
syntax defined by IETF, something like the DNS name space or the
ASN/OID name space. David interprets it as a OpenPGP-specific
name space, with no specific structure yet defined, reserved for
assignment by the IETF/IANA. That's reasonable -- could one of the
RFC authors confirm that this is the intention?
Since I was the author of that particular language: Yes, that's the
intention. Everything which has an @ character in it is for users
(since the DNS gives us a handy, decentralized way of avoiding chaos
and collisions in this case). If the @ character is not in there,
there's right now no trivial way of avoiding collisions - short of
registering notation tags with IANA (writing RFCs on them).
BTW, the idea was stolen from one of the SSH internet-drafts.
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Thomas Roessler <roessler(_at_)does-not-exist(_dot_)org>