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William,
Having already made the investment in running an 80,000 entry DSA,
you're in a different position from the vast majority of sites on the
Internet. I completely agree that email addresses are far too limited
to serve as preferred ways of identifying people or locating them in
general. On the other hand, that's the only infrastructure that's
widely deployed and in place. The deployment of PEM is suffering
mightily from the burden of having to introduce X.500 names.
Perhaps the right path is to have a means of building on the existing
infrastructure and transitioning to the X.500 basis over a period of
time. I don't have a clear plan how to do that, so perhaps we should
move the discussion in that direction.
X.500 is additionally troublesome because it's unnecessarily
complicated and hard to understand. I guess that's just a secondary
issue at this point.
Steve
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