On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 04:26:14PM -0700, Jordan Brown wrote:
> >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).
> 
> People seem to think it important that they have the Red Hat version of 
> some GNU package.  (Note that's two names - Red Hat, to distinguish who 
> customized the software, did the build, and created and signed the 
> package, and GNU to distinguish GNU make from Sun make.)  At least that 
> seemed to be how some of the people in the discussion were using the names.

If you don't want pkgs built by me then don't allow them in your policy.

I think the URNs need to be compact and useful.  But if you want them to
mean one thing no matter what the local policy then stuff a hash or
signature fp into the URN.
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