[OpenID] Anti-XRI FUD

[Drummond Reed]

Good point, Dmitry. It makes sense that if XRI-to-URL mapping is similar to
DNS-to-IP mapping, and reverse DNS gets you from IP-to-DNS, then "reverse
XRI" should get you from a URL to an XRI.

In fact there are several features going into XRI Resolution 2.0 Working
Draft 11 that will support this type of URL-to-XRI mapping.

=Drummond 

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Dmitry Shechtman
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 11:43 PM
To: 'Gabe Wachob'; general at openid.net
Subject: Re: [OpenID] Anti-XRI FUD

I must admit that I haven't looked much into XRI, but this actually appears
to be a straightforward thing. If you have a mapping from an i-name to a URL
(http://xri.net/ prefix), why not have a mapping from a URL to an XRI?

Regards,
Dmitry


-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
Behalf Of Gabe Wachob
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 05:28
To: 'James A. Donald'; general at openid.net
Subject: [OpenID] Anti-XRI FUD


That being said, if someone is interested in talking about using XRI in a
totally decentralized manner, I'm interested in that too - not sure how that
would work with OpenID where you need to have some sort of global
discoverability, but we can talk about it.

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