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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] what do you mean by *that*?!!?
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] what do you mean by *that*?!!? |
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Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:04:41 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Thomas Lord <address@hidden> writes:
> A symmetric topic arose recently in the Scheme world
> in the context of something called "SRFI-84".
>
> Here is my reply:
>
> http://dasht-brk.livejournal.com/23779.html?mode=reply
Tom: I really like your answer, I find it enlightening, and I agree with
your griefs against reliance on global, uncontrolled, names.
The proposal at the end of your reply reminds me of SPKI/SDSI's
name spaces, described at the beginning of:
Clarke et al, ``Certificate Chain Discovery in SPKI/SDSI'', 2001,
http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/ClarkeElElFrMoRi-CertificateChainDiscoveryInSPKISDSI.ps
The idea, roughly, is that each one can have identifiers in their local
name that may be bound either to a name in another person's name space,
or to some value (actually, a public key). Such a binding is called a
``name'', precisely. Everyone can issue ``name certificates'' for their
local bindings, that is, cryptographically-signed descriptions of the
bindings.
Thanks,
Ludovic.