Who defines Identities

Can we consider a requirement where the using protocol MAY define
the Entity-Identifiers? I would not want to have two namespaces
in most cases. If the using protocol has an appropriate namespace,
then the Entity-Identifier should be able to use it.

There are several consequences of such a requirement:
        Authentication (embedded authentication couldn't be
                dependent on the form of Entity-Indentifiers)
        Object data format (would have to hold arbitrary
                sized data chunk)
        Interwork of multiple systems with Location object
                crosses protocol boundarie

The last might be a relatively unsolvable problem; the former
two probably aren't much of deal. I think the idea that geopriv
defines an identity namespace just so it's possible to cross
boundaries, at the cost of having multiple identities, is
not credible.

Brian
Received on Wed Jul 17 22:26:32 2002