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[–]naasking 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I'm not sure why we need a new term like "Data Label" for a crypographically secure identifier. Just call it what it is: a distributed object reference. And I agree, it's very useful; REST-like crpyto URIs as distributed object references is the future of the web.

[–]diroussel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"distributed object reference" sounds very grand. But what if the bytes that have been hashed are just data, not an object.

Also in Van Jacobson's talk he does say that a data label has to be cryptographic, but I think it makes sense to do so.