Decentralized, Secure, Human-Meaningful: Choose Two (was Re:
Dan Ingalls' Environments package)
Tony Garnock-Jones
tonyg at lshift.net
Mon May 14 15:08:27 UTC 2007
Lex Spoon wrote:
> Overall, I find myself envious of Java's global naming scheme. Yes,
> the DNS-based names are nonsense. Leaving that aside, though, the
> Java system is simple, it works, and we could have it, but we don't.
It *sort of* works - it still doesn't provide securely-unique names.
Decentralised - check; human-memorable - check; not so securely-unique,
in the limit.
OSGI is perhaps an interesting hackaround wrt naming issues.
Regards,
Tony
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