[OpenID] Interop

[Martin Atkins]

Guido Sohne wrote:
> 
> If I understand you correctly, we could have an openid:// namespace
> which would be a non-commercial, (or more 'open') alternative to the
> xri.net proxy? That's not so bad, but it does raise the bar for
> implementations significantly, if they are to provide these facilities
> natively (i.e not by proxy) ...
> 

I don't know if this was what Fen was referring to, but the XRI syntax 
*is* actually heirarchical, so you can create your own namespace and 
still be an XRI.

There are a number of approaches. You can register an organisational 
i-name and then put other people under it:
     @myorganisation*fred

You can also embed your DNS hostname directly into the XRI to avoid the 
need to have an i-name at all. I can't remember the exact syntax, 
unfortunately.

The "funny little symbols" (=, @, etc) are really just syntactic sugar 
for some nominated "special" prefixes.