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Subject: Re: [xri] Resolution: ... where's "Drummond Reed" in the XRDS?
One advanced way of discovering name, description, etc. about the XRI would be to look up its XDI endpoint, and then send a $get to that endpoint. E.g. you resolve =drummond, and then you send this to the XDI endpoint: =nick.nicholas $get / =drummond You would get something like =drummond +name "Drummond Reed" $a$xsd$string "This is a person named Drummond Reed" ... But yes, as a more lightweight approach, I guess it's also a nice idea to have a human readable description somewhere in the XRD itself. Markus On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Nick Nicholas <opoudjis@optushome.com.au> wrote: > Now, you don't have to change what you're doing for this, but: > > Exec Summary: why does the string "Drummond Reed" not occur in the =drummond > XRDS? > > Exec Lemma: service-independent descriptions (like the string "Drummond > Reed") help guarantee persistence. > > Exec Suggestion: would a prose description service endpoint (the reverse of > http://thing-described-by.org/ ) help? > > Exec Realisation: An XRI with users managing their own XRDS may not be > compatible with archival notions of persistence. > > Discursive blog posts: > > http://interopporesearch.blogspot.com/2008/11/xri-handle-and-persistent-descriptors.html > http://interopporesearch.blogspot.com/2008/11/xri-handle-and-persistent-descriptors_19.html > > > --------------------=================================---------------------- > Dr Nick Nicholas, Link Affiliates, Melbourne skype:opoudjis > http://www.opoudjis.net opoudjis@optushome.com.au > "Electronic editors have to live in hope: hope that the long-awaited > standards for encoding texts for the computer will arrive; hope that they > will be workable; hope that software will appear to handle these texts; > hope that all the scholars of the world will have computers which can > drive the software (which does not yet exist) to handle the texts (which > have not yet been made) encoded in standard computer markup (which has not > yet been devised). To hope for all this requires a considerable belief in > the inevitability of progress and in the essential goodness of mankind." > (Peter M.W. Robinson) > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this mail list, you must leave the OASIS TC that > generates this mail. Follow this link to all your TCs in OASIS at: > https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/portal/my_workgroups.php >
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