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draft-trammell-rains-protocol: RAINS, Another Internet Naming System
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explicitly define the implicit root in local contexts #11

Closed britram closed 7 years ago

britram commented 7 years ago

The current specification implies that a context cx--.foo.bar.baz. may have top-level or nth-level assertions signed directly by the key delegated to foo.bar.baz; does foo.bar.baz in context . explicitly need to delegate to . in context cx--.foo.bar.baz? Probably, to make it explicit that a given context exists.

This should just work, I think -- it's clear that . in cx--.whatever should be signed with .whatever's key.