From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 06:03:19 CDT
In <3DA354A6.7030700@meowing.net> greg andruk <gja@meowing.net> writes:
>On multiple display names: yes, these are easy to support. There is the
>potential for turf wars in alt.*, but _everything_ is a potential turf
>war there. In administered hierarchies, someone is already keeping tabs
>on silliness.
I think every "prettyname" needs to have inbuilt into it the identity of
the authority who created it. In most cases, that could be just the name
of the hierarchy.
>And yes, it's okay for groups in different administrative domains to
>give their groups overlapping display names, just like it's okay for a
>mail server to have multiple users named John Smith. Once again, with
>feeling: names are not addresses, and these are solved problems.
Yes, but even a mail server needs some mechanism to disambiguate "John
Smith".
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