Re: [apps-discuss] proposing draft-farrell-ni as an appsarea wg item

[Linyi Tian 01 <[e-mail]>]

On 11-7-29 下午1:45, "Stephen Farrell" <[e-mail]> wrote:

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>On 29/07/11 01:34, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> On 7/28/11 7:05 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
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>>> On 28/07/11 21:51, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
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>>>> I don't see the need for an authority component, but maybe I'm missing
>>>> something in the use cases.
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>>> Within the information centric kind of stuff we do (as research, not
>>> ready for IETF prime time by any means) we have a need for a DNS or
>>> DNS-like authority. We also have use-cases for no authority part at
>>> all in that same space.
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>>> I basically just allowed the hash-string for authority since it seemed
>>> like fun:-) That is, I have no concrete use case for that now.
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>> It would be good to get an idea of the use cases people have. I've heard
>> about various folks who might want a hash URI scheme, but I haven't
>> heard about specific use cases they've got.
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>Good plan. It'd be great to hear what similar requirements/use-cases
>exist,
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>S.
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Use cases are really important in this case. It is simply because we need
to understand in which environment it will be used in the correct way. If
no use cases why bother to do the technical work?

So I am looking forward to seeing use case and requirements too.

For urn based design, the URN may be too long since SHA256 will have 256
bytes hash value. Right?
urn:hash:sha256:NDc0NzgyMGVmOGQ3OGU0...

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>> Peter
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