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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>2008-03-23 &#8211; Peter Williams wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In the openid world, I really do not envision OPs dealing
with multiple attribute authorities ever needing to have to enforce X.500s
control signals when dealing with multiple attribute authorities. Its surely
UNnecessary to have the UA (the openid Consumer) specify requirements on master
and slave copies, cached and non-cached attributes handling, or invoke
transactional updates in a multicast distributed update! (In the realty space,
we have our own update, that will one day hopefully migrate to a SPARQL update,
as SPARQL matures) For the purposes of openid, all these matters can hopefully
be simply delegated to the XRI infrastructure. Hopefully, XRI just
&quot;works&quot;.</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>[=Drummond] That&#8217;s the goal of those
of us building that XRI infrastructure, Peter. We have a ways to go -- we&#8217;re
still working upgrade key open source projects like OpenXRI (Java) and Barx (Ruby)
and infrastructure like XDI.org to fully support the XRI Resolution 2.0 specs (<a
href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/2.0/specs/xri-resolution-V2.0.html">http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/2.0/specs/xri-resolution-V2.0.html</a>).
But we&#8217;ll get there as soon as we can &#8211; and whenever anything doesn&#8217;t
&#8220;just work&#8221;, just tell us.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>=Drummond <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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