RE: [xri] XRI discovery -vs- resolution

["Tan, William" <William.Tan@neustar.biz>]

Discovery would be more suited to finding out the available services on an authority (bare I-name / I-number). Whenever a service selection criterion is present, I think the term "resolution" is appropriate.

So, there are a few operations on any given XRI:

Discover(authority) => set of services + canonical IDs + provider ID etc.
Resolve(xri, type, mtype) => set of services (mostly one) that matches the criteria.


=wil (http://xri.net/=wil)
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor Grey [mailto:victor@idcommons.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 12:00 AM
> To: xri@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [xri] XRI discovery -vs- resolution
> 
> +1
> =vg
> 
> 
> Chasen, Les wrote:
> > I was wondering what everyone thinks about the idea of instead of
> > using the term XRI resolution we start calling it XRI discovery?