[OpenID] Interop

[Guido Sohne]

On 6/8/07, Martin Atkins <mart at degeneration.co.uk> wrote:
> XRI resolution is done over HTTP, and so depends on the DNS albeit in a
> purely internal way.

It means that DNS could store only the XRI service providers, who
could then internalize the rest. I would not be surprised if someone
was working on mapping DNS resolution to some XRI database or
implementation ... maybe that's why we see Verisign folks :-)

> Perhaps, but XRI at least has syntax to accomodate alternative "roots".
> The result doesn't look as pretty as an i-name, but it is unabiguous.
> The same cannot be said for alternative DNS roots, which can and have
> had namespace collisions.

Perhaps there should be syntactic sugar for this?

-- G.