[Monotone-devel] Re: SPKI/SDSI

[Bruce Stephens]

Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> The really nice thing about this chunk of extra architecture is that
> it also gives you natural solutions for such things as:
>   * key lifecycle (including retiring old keys and making new ones
>     with the same name as the old one)
>   * branch naming (and renaming)
>   * a natural place for a project to store project-general data.  say,
>     for instance, darcs's famous email-address-in-the-repo, so one
>     could in principle say "monotone email-changes" and have local
>     changes magically bundled off to the appropriate list.
> and so on :-)

Yes indeed.  And you didn't mention another big one, which is that
other people have already designed it.