Specifying identifier recycling

Thu May 31 04:53:30 UTC 2007

On May 30, 2007, at 21:02, Johnny Bufu wrote:

> ...The bottom line is
> that it can't be done easily - a mechanism similar to XRI's canonical
> ID verification would have to be employed, to confirm that the i-
> number actually 'belongs' to the URL on which discovery was
> initiated. (Otherwise anyone could put any i-number in their URL-
> based XRDS files.)

Public keys ... public keys ... with the added benefit that no  
centralized or trusted verification service needs to be employed  
whatsoever ...

Johannes Ernst
NetMesh Inc.

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