Re: [egov] RE: [egov-infra] RE: [egov] OASIS e-GOV TC : LIAISONS

[Duane Nickull <duane@yellowdragonsoft.com>]

Marc:

Thanks - I presumed this was implied but just wanted to make sure it was 
explicitly called out somewhere.

Cheers

Duane Nickull
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Marc LeMaitre wrote:
> Duane et al,
> 
> To answer your question: A fully qualified URI is considered to be
> globally unique, XRIs are conformant URIs (per RFC 2396) then through
> transitivity a fully qualified XRI is also globally unique. So, to
> answer your question directly, we have been persuaded and thanks for the
> feedback.
> 
> If you want to find out more it's explained in the motivations and
> requirements document linked in my original email.
> 
> If you or any other member of this TC wishes to have an introduction to
> XRIs and how they solve some of the sticky problems of persistent,
> cross-context, cross reference-able abstract identifiers then I will be
> happy to accommodate.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Duane Nickull [mailto:duane@yellowdragonsoft.com]
>>Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 12:41 PM
>>To: Marc LeMaitre
>>Cc: john.borras@e-envoy.gsi.gov.uk; egov@lists.oasis-open.org; egov-
>>infra@lists.oasis-open.org; xri@lists.oasis-open.org
>>Subject: Re: [egov-infra] RE: [egov] OASIS e-GOV TC : LIAISONS
>>
>>Could I persuade you to add "global uniqueness" to that list?
>>
>>There have been many relevant discussions in ebXML and UDDI.  We
>>reviewed the work of Michael Mealling which was hgenerally thought to
> 
> be
> 
>>a good fit (uning urn style identifiers for UUID/GUID's).
>>
>>/d
>>
>>Marc LeMaitre wrote:
>>
>>
>>>John et al,
>>>
>>>I would like to add one more OASIS TC with which I believe the e-Gov
>>
> TC
> 
>>>needs a liaison point.
>>>
>>>The OASIS XRI TC (eXtensible Resource Identifier) is currently in the
>>>latter stages of specifying a scheme for identifying and resolving
>>
> both
> 
>>>network and non-network resources using fully abstracted identifiers.
>>>
>>>I believe that the most relevant aspects of XRIs will be their:
>>>
>>>*	Abstraction and Independence
>>>*	Persistence and Reassignability
>>>*	Human-friendliness and Machine-friendliness
>>>*	Cross-Context Identification
>>>*	Authority, Delegation, and Federation
>>>*	Security and Privacy
>>>*	Extensibility
>>>
>>>
>>
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