draft-ietf-dtn-eid-pattern
Bundle Protocol Endpoint ID Patterns
This document extends the Bundle Protocol Endpoint ID (EID) concept
into an EID Pattern, which is used to categorize any EID as matching
a specific pattern or not. EID Patterns are suitable for expressing
configuration, for being used on-the-wire by protocols, and for being
easily understandable by a layperson. EID Patterns include scheme-
specific optimizations for expressing set membership and each scheme
pattern includes text and binary encoding forms; the pattern for the
"ipn" EID scheme being designed to be highly compressible in its
binary form. This document also defines a Public Key Infrastructure
Using X.509 (PKIX) Other Name form to contain an EID Pattern and a
handling rule to use a pattern to match an EID.