Re: An alternative to explicit revocation?

In message <9601022339.AA28736@acetes.pa.dec.com>, Jeffrey Mogul writes:
>However, one of the concepts that came out of the AFS work (I
>believe), called "volume validation", seems like it might go
>a long way to improving cache performance for large proxies,
>and yet could be implemented without much hassle (I think).
>
>Here's a first cut at a design; please don't hold me to the details,
>but I would be interested in comments.

Cool idea.

>	Volume-ID: <opaque string>
>	Volume-version: <opaque-string>
>	Volume-expiration: <date> (or maybe <offset in seconds>?)


I could handle a less verbose syntax:

	Volume: <id> <version> <date-in-YYYYMMDDHHMMSSZ-format>

Date parsing: Just Say No!

Dan

Received on Wednesday, 3 January 1996 00:22:56 UTC