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

"Worley, Dale R (Dale)" <dworley@avaya.com> Fri, 23 September 2011 15:12 UTC

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From: "Worley, Dale R (Dale)" <dworley@avaya.com>
To: "PFAUTZ, PENN L" <pp3129@att.com>, "rai@ietf.org" <rai@ietf.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:13:40 -0400
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> From: PFAUTZ, PENN L [pp3129@att.com]
> 
> I’d also note that PENs suggest a sub-delegation approach to assigning
> multiple SPIDs to an entity (an entity gets one PEN assignment and can
> assign values hierarchically below that (e.g. AT&T has PEN 74, and
> would assign 74.1, 74.2, etc).

Subdelegation would present a problem relative to the desire for
fixed-length identifiers, as the subordinate number would have to be
fixed-length also.

Dale