Re: ROID how useful?
Keith Gaughan <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 11:33:07AM -0800, Francisco Obispo wrote: > On Dec 7, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Christopher Browne <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Any time the "natural" key is unique, there is little need for roids as > > references. > > +1 > > > In contrast, roids or some equivalent will prove necessary whenever the > > natural key is NOT unique. > > Exactly, but in case of domain names, contact ids, and host names, they all > have natural keys. Contact IDs, maybe, so long as it's up to the registry to generate them, but domains and hosts? Not at all. If, say I register a domain and let it lapse, and somebody else registers it, those can be considered independent objects with separate identities, even though they refer to the very same domain. The same goes for host objects and contact objects (if the registry doesn't guarantee uniqueness). K. -- Keith Gaughan, Development Lead PGP/GPG key ID: 82AC3634 Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd. <http://blacknight.com/> 12A Barrowside Business Park, Carlow, Ireland Registered in Ireland, Company No.: 370845 _______________________________________________ provreg mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/provreg