RE: [xri] XRIs in directories

["Lindelsee, Mike " <mlindels@visa.com>]

I'm all for doing this.  If it will aid in the adoption of XRIs, I think
that it is important that the TC do this additional work.

Mike

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave McAlpin [mailto:Dave.McAlpin@epok.net] 
>Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 3:48 PM
>To: xri@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: [xri] XRIs in directories
>
>After a break in action on the XRI list, here's the first of 
>several technical issues that need to be addressed as we work 
>through the next (hopefully final) committee draft scheduled 
>to be completed in October.
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>The TC has received a request to define how XRIs are to be 
>used as attributes in directory systems. As I understand it, 
>this means that we'd need to define two attributes, one for a 
>single value XRI and one for a multi-value list of XRIs. We'd 
>then need to register the attributes, acquire and assign OIDs 
>and define an objectClass for each.
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>I'll put together a proposal next week for attribute names and 
>objectClasses, but for now I just want to give a heads up 
>about this activity and ask if anyone on the list feels 
>strongly one way or the other about taking on this work. Also, 
>does anyone have experience on the registration process for 
>new directory attributes?
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>Dave
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