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Re: Using RDDL as a Distributed Registry Architecture

• To: "mbatsis@h..." <mbatsis@h...>
• Subject: Re: Using RDDL as a Distributed Registry Architecture
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:30:51 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <200210080059.13172.mbatsis@n...>

> I cetainly would not accept such an authority. I'd preffer distributed
> metadata bundled with the subject resources.

The problem is trust, from a security/crypto viewpoint.  If you have a
distributed directory (which, I agree, is basically what you want),
handling trust becomes difficult.  We could look to DNSSEC as a deployment
model, but ... unh ... it ain't deployed. :(
        /r$

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