On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 03:32:39PM -0700, Jordan Brown wrote:
> Sounds like might you need *three* domain names in there some place, in 
> the fully-qualified URL case:
> 
> - the name of the server you're retrieving from
> - the name of the organization that built and signed the package and so 
> is responsible for the binaries
> - the name of the organization that originally wrote the software and so 
> is responsible for the sources

Hmmm, actually, I think I see only two:

 - the name of the repository (for URLs)
 - the name of the original _packager_

The name of the organization that packaged a given instance isn't very
interesting since its relevance to you will depend on your trust anchor
set (policy).

For URNs then there'd be one domain name.

For URLs there'd be two.

Exact URNs would have a hash as a URN fragment.

If you care about who did the actual packaging, then add a pubkey/cert
fingerprint.

> (Of course, that still doesn't take into account the possibility that 
> there are multiple levels of source authorship.)

IMO this is irrelevant.

Nico
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