RE: [xri] 3.2.7 - User Relative XRIs

["Dave McAlpin" <dave.mcalpin@epokinc.com>]

Good catch. We'll fix than in the next rev.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Loren West [mailto:loren.west@epokinc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 5:30 PM
> To: xri@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [xri] 3.2.7 - User Relative XRIs
> 
> Small issue:
> 
> User Relative XRIs are described in the text to be
> useful for and used by users (human beings) as
> "shortcuts" or "speed names".
> 
> But the example is confusing, because the XRI
> isn't relative to "Mary", it's relative to
> "@employer".  It's hard for me to think about
> the "@employer" user having a "shortcut" XRI
> with the value "*Mary/workstation".
> 
> It's less confusing (and maybe what was intended)
> to think of "Mary" as the user.  The a priori
> Identifier Authority for her may be "@employer/Mary",
> and User Relative XRI would be "*workstation".
> 
> Here's the example from the spec:
> 
>    > ...For example, if XRI resolver is pre-configured
>    > with a default community of "@employer/", then the
>    > XRI "xri:*Mary/workstation" would be converted into
>    > "xri:@employer/Mary/workstation".
> 
> Which is correct, but not illustrative of Mary as
> a user.  It could be more like this:
> 
>    > ...For example, if Mary is known as a user with a
>    > default Identifier Authority of "@employer/Mary", then
>    > the XRI "xri:*workstation" would be converted into
>    > "xri:@employer/Mary/workstation" for resolution.
> 
> =Loren
> 
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