- From: Booth, David (HP Software - Boston) <dbooth@hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:46:19 +0000
- To: John Bradley <john.bradley@wingaa.com>, "Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)" <skw@hp.com>
- CC: Drummond Reed <drummond.reed@cordance.net>, 'Paul Prescod' <paul@prescod.net>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
> From: John Bradley [mailto:john.bradley@wingaa.com] > [ . . . ] > An idea I have kicked around with a number of people that may > fit David's model is to use a domain or TLD as the "clear > chain of authority" root. > > The difference being that all identifiers under that DNS root > would be interpreted as the appropriate sub scheme. > > As an example the domain name boeing.com.xri.net would be > interpreted as an XRI by the client software. DNS would be > configured to return the ip address of Boeing's HXRI proxy server. > > I could use > http://plaxo.com.xri.net/(http://boeing.com)*jbradley if that > was the proxy that was optimal for me, a client application > could also recognize it as being a synonym for > http://boeing.com.xri.net/(http://boeing.com)*jbradley Cute! That is semantically similar to what I had suggested, but would better exploit DNS. That looks like a good approach: - it retains a clear chain of authority for determining how the URI should be interpreted; - its XRI semantics would be recognizable by XRI-aware clients; and - it is still usable by clients that are not XRI-aware. My concerns would be fully addressed if the XRI TC dropped the xri: scheme and adopted this form as the canonical serialization for XRIs. David Booth, Ph.D. HP Software +1 617 629 8881 office | dbooth@hp.com http://www.hp.com/go/software Statements made herein represent the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the official views of HP unless explicitly so stated.
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