Re: AS#2 - Internet Draft P

[carl@xxxxxxxxx (Carl Hage)]

[;-) Ah yes, another proprietary/X-400 emailer that truncates the Subject:
line, and blows the email address into:
>Return-Path: </DD.id=0139577/G=Wayne/S=Seifried/@nt.com>

>From: Wayne Seifried <Wayne.Seifried.0139577@nt.com>
>Carl Hage wrote...
>
>> - Private ID's are a potential problem. The internal ID's should
>>    be maintained _within_ an organization, and ID's based on
>>    InterNIC registered domain names should be used instead,
>
>Re: use of internic names...this would severly limit the protocol to =
>business to business commerce applications. I don't think we want to do =
>that at this point. The protocol could support consumer based commerce as =
>well

An InterNIC name could be <Wayne.Seifried@aol.com>.

I agree that IDs shouldn't be limited to business-business. For example,
<Fred.Smith@isp.com> won't have a DUNS number, a typical EDI identifier.

For secure communications, the name would probably be derived from
the "distinguished name" on a certificate, or from the registered ID
of a public key. Email addresses could potentially be shared, while
public keys are unique.
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