Public Review of Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Resolution V 2.0

[Drummond Reed]

The XRI Technical Committee at OASIS, many of whose members have been
involved in OpenID, is pleased to *finally* declare XRI Resolution 2.0
Committee Draft 02 final. Below is the public review announcement with links
to the spec in HTML, PDF, and Word formats.

This means the spec is now referencable by OpenID Authentication 2.0 and any
other OpenID specs that need it. I will work with David and the editors to
help update references (the URIs in the message below are all
authoritative).

As some members of this list know, XRI Resolution 2.0 contains a number of
features and enhancements that grew directly from requirements of OpenID
2.0. In particular:

* Yadis 1.0 has been incorporated as Section 6 of XRI Resolution 2.0
("Discovering XRDS Documents from HTTP(S) URIs")
* CanonicalID verification is now very tightly specified for both HTTP(S)
URIs and XRIs. 
* Two new synonym elements - EquivID and CanonicalEquivID - cover use cases
where XRDS users want to assert equivalence of identity across distributed
XRDS documents.
* There are two enhanced features (Redirect and Ref) for distributed XRDS
document management that may prove useful to OpenID users and OPs.

XRI TC members and implementers will hold an open space session specifically
for OpenID implementers at Internet Identity Workshop.

And please do send us any feedback -- via this list or via the comment form
at OASIS.

=Drummond


-----Original Message-----
From: Mary McRae [mailto:marypmcrae at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mary McRae
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 6:05 PM
To: members at lists.oasis-open.org; tc-announce at lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: xri at lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [members] Public Review of Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI)
Resolution V 2.0

To OASIS members, Public Announce Lists:

The OASIS eXtensible Resource Identifier (XRI) TC has recently approved the
following specification as a Committee Draft and approved the package for
public
review:

Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Resolution Version 2.0

The public review starts today, 3 December 2007, and ends 1 February 2008.
This is an open invitation to comment. We strongly encourage feedback from
potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for
the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of OASIS work. Please
feel free to distribute this announcement within your organization and to
other appropriate mail lists.

More non-normative information about the specification and the technical
committee may be found at the public home page of the TC at 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=xri. Comments may
be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment
Facility which can be located via the button marked "Send A Comment" at the
top of that page, or directly at 
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=xri.

Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works of that TC) are
publicly archived and can be viewed at 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xri-comment/. All comments submitted to
OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the
feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the
obligations of the TC members.

The specification document and related files are available here:

Editable Source:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/2.0/specs/cd02/xri-resolution-V2.0-cd-02.doc

PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/2.0/specs/cd02/xri-resolution-V2.0-cd-02.pdf

HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/2.0/specs/cd02/xri-resolution-V2.0-cd-02.html

The RelaxNG schema files, that are included normatively in the specification
document, are available as separate files at:

Schema:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/2.0/specs/cd02/xrds.rnc
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/2.0/specs/cd02/xrd.rnc

OASIS and the eXtensible Resource Identifier (XRI) TC welcome your comments.


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Mary P McRae
Manager of TC Administration, OASIS
email: mary.mcrae at oasis-open.org  
web: www.oasis-open.org