comments

[Ray Plante]

Hi Tony,

> > B. IDs should identify one thing only; they should not carry 
> > any embedded meaning or structure (eg 5th letter codes for 
> > the astronomer's gender preference). This is FATAL to any system.

> People, groups and communities won't be first registered in a Registry
> but in a Community Server (Community Name Server?) where they'll be
> assigned unique IDs created from the community namespace plus some
> community-specific identifier (eg //cas.le.ac.uk/TonyLinde).

This suggests some embedded structure ;-)  What do you see as the
purpose of the preceeding namespace.  Is it simply to avoid littering
a global namespace, or can you infer something more with cas.le.ac.uk?
Given that the ID is assigned by the registry, does this imply
something that the registry can do with the ID?

cheers,
Ray