Fully-qualified Names (1)

• To be used away from its locality, a name must be globally unique. Let us call this a fully-qualified name.

• A name local to one keyholder, paired with the public key of that keyholder, is a global ID, mapping to a key:

  (name fred) = k1
  
  (name n1 n2 Ö nN) = kN

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