From owner-spki@c2.net Mon Mar 15 12:00:05 1999 Received: from blacklodge.c2.net (blacklodge.c2.net [140.174.185.245]) by lox.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03358; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:00:03 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by blacklodge.c2.net (8.8.8/8.7.3) id HAA17436 for spki-outgoing; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 07:34:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:18:38 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199903151518.KAA16272@swan.lcs.mit.edu> From: Ron Rivest To: rgrimm@cs.washington.edu, paul@hedonism.demon.co.uk, spki@c2.net Subject: Display types? Sender: owner-spki@c2.net Precedence: bulk Hi Paul and Robert -- I agree with you both the display types are a debatable feature of SPKI/SDSI. They obviously add a little bit of complexity. On the other hand, they have the following benefits: (1) they allow the use of names over a non-Latin alphabet (2) they allow incorporation of pictures and other document types My personal opinion is that (1) makes them worth the extra trouble... Cheers, Ron Rivest