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Re: persistent identities

To: perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: persistent identities
From: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 16:50:43 -0500
Cc: spki@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199702262003.PAA05865@jekyll.piermont.com>
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At 03:03 PM 2/26/97 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>Indeed. I think the real question is whether you need *global*
>namespaces ever, and I think the answer to that is, in general, you
>don't.

Worse than that, I have come to believe that a global namespace
is just plain wrong -- insecure because it uses meaningless names.


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