On Mar 20, 2023, at 2:42 PM, Robert Story <rstory@ant.isi.edu> wrote:
On Mon 2023-03-20 21:22:59+0000 Paul wrote:
But I also don’t see what RSOs having multiple instances has to do with the sub-string, and I think you mean root server identity there instead of RSO?
It would help the person holding the NSID. I can easily imagine two RSOs having the same identifier such as "LAX-1".
I don't think you're going to get agreement on NSIDs being completely unique amongst all RSOs.
If the string starts with the RSI's letter, and the RSO tries to make each instance have a unique identifier, this would make the NSIDs unique among the RSOs.
And you shouldn't need the identity of the RSO in the NSID because you know the RSO you sent the query to...
True. If identifying yourself with your RSI letter is onerous, we can drop the second sentence. --Paul Hoffman