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Re: Comments on SPKI draft of 25 March 1997



At 12:51 PM -0800 3/29/97, Ron Rivest wrote:
>If you prefer different names for the three object types, how about
>	( ref-key-name <key-or-key-hash> name )
>	( ref-key-names <key-or-key-hash> name1 name2 ... )
>	( ref-names name1 name2 ... )
>or
>	( basic-ref <key-or-key-hash> name )
>	( general-ref <key-or-key-hash> name1 name2 ... )
>	( floating-ref name1 name2 ... )

I like the human engineering factor that the differences in the second form
jump out of the page at you rather than being, in one case, only the
addition of a single letter.  (They are also shorter, preserving bandwidth
and screen real estate.)


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