Re: [RAI] Global Service Provider ID - draft-pfautz-service-provider-identifier-urn-01

["Worley, Dale R (Dale)" <[e-mail]>]

> From: Hadriel Kaplan [[e-mail]]
> 
> So I asked some people about why ITAD wasn't what they wanted to use
> for SPIDs, and they said exactly what you said above:
> 
> > because the existing ones were intended for other purposes and
> > already had many registrations
> 
> It's the latter part (that they already have many registrations) that
> I think is really why people don't want to use ITADs, and that's what
> worries me in a weird way... because it implies they think some new
> SPID registry won't be populated with junk.  It will be.

I think there are two overlapping flavors of this distaste.  One is
the symbolism of membership in a registry.  There is going to be a
visceral desire that the registry is "for service providers, but not
limited to traditional telephony".  However, if there are enough
identifiers that we don't risk running out, it really doesn't matter
who or what is allowed into the registry.

The other flavor is what Hadriel says, "we don't want the registry
filled with junk".  But the reality, the *meta-design principle*, is
that if you have a system that can actually keep the junk out, you
will also be keeping out something you want to let in.

Dale