* Jordan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-29 23:17]:
> Stephen Hahn wrote:
>> * Jordan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-05-29 22:34]:
>>> 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 mirrors property of the image's configuration for a particular
>>   authority contains the list of mirrors.  Use the HTTPS transport, if
>>   offered, to verify that this server is trusted.
>>  
>>> - the name of the organization that built and signed the package and so 
>>> is responsible for the binaries
>>
>>   We verify this by having cryptographically signed catalogs and manifests.
>>
>>> - the name of the organization that originally wrote the software and so 
>>> is responsible for the sources
>>
>>> (Of course, that still doesn't take into account the possibility that 
>>> there are multiple levels of source authorship.)
>>
>>   These are properties in the metadata, and were discussed in the "Tags
>>   and attributes" thread.
>>
> I'm not saying you don't have all of the data available in some fashion... 
> just that people seemed to be trying to cram three or more concepts into 
> one or two names in a URL or URI.

  Yes--I am just taking advantage of your list to point out that all the
  data is available, and since that data is not missing, it needn't be
  pushed into the FMRI.

  - Stephen

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