Handle System Namespace and Service Definition

By Sun, S.

Book Id: WPLBN0000691714
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Title:	Handle System Namespace and Service Definition
Author:	Sun, S.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Language, Philology, Linguistics
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Technical Reference Publication

Excerpt
Introduction: The Handle System manages handles as globally unique names for Internet resources. It was originally conceived and described in a paper by Robert Kahn and Robert Wilensky [22] in 1995. The Handle System provides a general-purpose global name service that allows handles to be resolved and administrated securely over the public Internet. The Handle System categorizes its service into two categories: the handle resolution service and the handle administration service. Clients use handle resolution service to resolve handles into their values. The handle administration service deals with client requests to manage these handles, including adding and deleting handles, and updating handle values.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Handle System Namespace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Handle System Data Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.1. Handle Value Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2. Pre-defined Handle Data Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.2.1. Handle Administrator: HS_ADMIN . . . . . . . . . 10 3.2.2. Service Site Information: HS_SITE. . . . . . . . 14 3.2.3. Naming Authority Delegation Service: HS_NA_DELEGATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 3.2.4. Service Handle: HS_SERV. . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3.2.5. Alias Handle: HS_ALIAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.2.6. Primary Site: HS_PRIMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.2.7. Handle Value List: HS_VLIST. . . . . . . . . . . 22 4. Handle System Service Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 4.1. Handle System Service Components . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 4.1.1. Global Handle Registry (GHR) . . . . . . . . . . 23 4.1.2. Local Handle Service (LHS) . . . . . . . . . . . 26 4.2. Handle System Middle-Ware Components . . . . . . . . . . 27 4.2.1. Handle System Caching Service. . . . . . . . . . 27 4.2.2. Handle System Proxy Server . . . . . . . . . . . 28 4.3. Handle System Client Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 5. Handle System Operation Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 5.1. Handle System Service Request and Response . . . . . . . 30 5.2. Handle System Authentication Protocol. . . . . . . . . . 32 6. Security Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 7. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 8. References and Bibliography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 9. Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 10. Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41