[OpenID] W3C TAG recommends against XRI

[Drummond Reed]

Dick, glad you asked. I was at an event all day today but spent a good part
of this evening collating the input of XRI TC members in response to the
TAG's posting.

Suffice it to say, the XRI TC -- and so far the vast majority of OASIS
members -- believe the TAG is mistaken in its judgement.

For the full details of our response, see:

	http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xri/XriSolvesRealProblems

With regard to OpenID in particular, we also suggest folks review the paper
presented at the IDtrust Symposium in February:

	
Http://middleware.internet2.edu/idtrust/2008/papers/01-reed-openid-xri-xrds.
pdf 

I must sleep now, but will be back online mid-morning tomorrow and happy to
answer questions in more detail.

=Drummond 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Hardt [mailto:dick at sxip.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 3:20 PM
> To: Drummond Reed
> Cc: OpenID List
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] W3C TAG recommends against XRI
> 
> Drummond, would be interested to hear your comments on this topic.
> 
> -- Dick
> 
> On 22-May-08, at 2:07 PM, Andy Powell wrote:
> 
> > In a message to the W3C Technical Architecture Group list yesterday
> >
> > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2008May/0078.html
> >
> > Tim Berners-Lee and Stuart Williams, co-chairs of the TAG state
> > categorically, "We are not satisfied that XRIs provide functionality
> > not
> > readily available from http: URIs.  Accordingly the TAG recommends
> > against taking the XRI specifications forward, or supporting the use
> > of
> > XRIs as identifiers in other specifications".
> >
> > Is there a view here about whether this has any impact on the current
> > adoption of XRI in the OpenID 2.0 spec?
> >
> > Andy
> > --
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