Re: slot attributes & last call

[Nico Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 05:10:08PM -0800, Jan Pechanec wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2014, Nico Williams wrote:
> >> And there is no other URI that could identify that slot without the slot-id
> >> attribute? i.e. pkcs11:slot-description=metaslot
> >
> >I would think so.  Maybe Jan misunderstood my question; he certainly
> >didn't answer it.
> 
> 	I did, I'm sorry.  The description is distinct, "Sun Metaslot" 
> and it's defacto stable but what I wanted to say was that I don't 

This might be the reason to use slot-id in your case: that any token
reader device could claim to be a "Sun Metaslot" even though it's not.

When you know that slot #0 is is the "Sun Metaslot" then you can be more
certain that you're getting the "Sun Metaslot" than if you use the slot
label.

> think it is about whether we find a way not to use the attribute since 
> we could probably do without other attributes as well, I still think 
> that if we add slot-description and slot-manufacturer, we should add 
> slot-id since there are situations where it may be useful.

I agree now.

> 	I will draft new text including the slot-id attribute first 
> and send it here but will not file it yet.
> 
> 	thank you for reviewing this last minute proposals.  J.

Thanks,

Nico
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