Stephen Day

@wking Is there a realistic use case for distributing `.wh.` files, other than packing up a container runtime into an image? > [1]: #24 (comment) > [2]: #24 (comment) >...

@wking I don't really get this: the proposed layout is not how images are laid out. Such a provision requires either having in-band whiteout or a container format, which complicates...

@timthelion Besides the contrived examples, do you have an extant proof that someone has actually run into a naming collision with whiteout files? I think there are problems in nested...

@philips Let's make a note here to consider cases such as [notary](https://github.com/docker/notary) for naming delegation. Have we decomposed naming delegation to particular set operations?

@philips You can read [here](https://github.com/docker/notary/blob/master/docs/getting_started.md#understand-notary-naming). The link is fairly straightforward. Let me know if you have more questions. Perhaps, I am misunderstanding naming delegation. We may need a clear definition...

@brendandburns To clarify, are you saying that the user should be able to configure the naming authority for `my-company.com`? If a user pulls, `my-company.com/bar/foo` and gets `my-company.com.gcr.io/bar/foo`, what is the...

> It seems to me that TLS should be fine, as long as the thing you are delegating to holds the cert for the original registry. I don't see how...

@brendandburns I see. Sorry about the harsh wording here. How is this different from using TLS with a CNAME as one normally would? It sounds like a very standard usage....

> In my mind, hosting keys isn't really a challenge for most cloud providers, since they already have to do it in order to terminate SSL for their load balancers....

@AkihiroSuda Where does it say that image layout is required? One should be able to use "index", "manifest" and "config", without using the "image layout". Having an image layout is...