Draft OpenID v.Next Discovery working group charter

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Thu Apr 15 20:33:50 UTC 2010


>What happens under the covers is not really a concern to me at this
>point. The original idea of the web was that the URIs could be messy
>as they would never be seen by users.

This is sort of a feature of XRI (and I'm speaking here only from my 
own understanding, motivated by my own personal interests; I haven't 
been formally delegated to speak on their behalf, nor has anyone 
instructed me to do so), addressing the issue of namespace value 
(which even DNS falls prey to) by keeping a unique ID (deliberately 
constructed to be meaningless to humans, and therefore without value 
as a "vanity" number) "under the covers", hidden from users but 
paired with the visible/vanity identifier.

-Shade


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