Re: A question on the vocabulary for 'persons'

> 
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the specific needs here, but I wonder if 
> authoritative identification of individuals is really an argument for a 
> ID-oriented naming convention - such as LSID.
>

With regard to identity, has anyone here had experiece with I-names [1]. 
These are OASIS "human-friendly XRI's [2] intended to be as easy as 
possible for people to remember and use" and can be resolved using the XRI 
protocol which itself in interesting as it is not just HTTP and they 
appear to have a number of well thought out reasons why it is not[3].  
XRI's can be used where ever URI's are called for.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-name
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Resource_Identifier
[3] 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Resource_Identifier#Why_not_just_use_HTTP_URLs.3F

Kindest regards, Sean
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