Re: Proposed Agenda items of Tallinn meeting

[Robert Loomans <robertl@apnic.net>]

> You're describing what rcynic already does if one insists on
> structuring a repository in this silly way.  It's still wastes effort.

Okay, please explain to me the difference between the hierarchical
repository, as we've previously been discussing, where you get a certs
products and that of all of it's descendants nested under a single
directory, and a flat (RobK style) repository where all SIAs point to
the root directory?

> That's not the structure you have now, and as described it appears to
> violate the rule that the products can be found in the directory to
> which the SIA URI points.  Or are you assuming that relying parties
> are going to do a recursive tree walk of everything under the SIA URI?
> If the latter, we can stop worrying about small performance hits
> because now relying parties have to walk your entire repository
> multiple times.

Umm... Why?

I would expect that you would walk the tree once when you retrieve it
and retain an index of SKI -> filename.

Rob

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