From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p factotum available for plan 9
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:42:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32009.1289691760@lunacy.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101113083143.GA1101@polynum.com>
> The problem with strings is that they are human oriented and human
> dependent, on mood and/or trend. Numbers are agnostic.
>
> Isn't a solution a la IP network numbers possible? I mean, a user,
> whatever string is locally associated to it (and this may change),
> is uniquely identified by a number that could encode a domain (with
> some numbers being absolutely local) [...]
I think the Inferno guys have relevant art. Principals are identified
by public keys (which are indeed numbers). But I am not an expert on
how this plays out in practice, and I also have a sense that the current
Inferno implementation is an approximation of the design goals.
Dave Eckhardt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-13 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-03 21:13 erik quanstrom
2010-11-09 3:37 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-09 17:41 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-09 17:51 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-10 0:37 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-10 1:49 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-10 6:46 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-10 14:31 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-12 3:35 ` Noah Evans
2010-11-12 5:34 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-12 5:46 ` Noah Evans
2010-11-12 6:03 ` Noah Evans
2010-11-12 6:19 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-12 6:25 ` Noah Evans
2010-11-12 9:07 ` EBo
2010-11-12 15:12 ` David Leimbach
2010-11-12 15:19 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-12 15:35 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-12 15:55 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-12 16:22 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-12 19:55 ` ron minnich
2010-11-12 20:23 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-12 20:31 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-12 20:37 ` ron minnich
2010-11-12 20:30 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-12 20:41 ` ron minnich
2010-11-12 22:15 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2010-11-12 22:20 ` ron minnich
2010-11-12 22:36 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-13 8:31 ` tlaronde
2010-11-13 23:42 ` Dave Eckhardt [this message]
2010-11-14 22:49 ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2010-11-15 16:22 ` erik quanstrom
2010-11-15 17:40 ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2010-11-15 17:50 ` John Floren
2010-11-12 21:12 ` Russ Cox
2010-11-09 18:08 ` yy
2010-11-09 19:17 ` Bakul Shah
2010-11-09 19:27 ` Russ Cox
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