Re: [xri] GCS Characters

[Victor Grey <victor@idcommons.org>]

Drummond Reed wrote:
> Actually, Marty, the semantics of = and @ is exactly what you  
> describe for $
> and + and * and !. They do not describe the resource. They describe  
> the
> identifier for the resource. = says the identifier is assigned by a  
> personal
> authority - an individual data subject in privacy terms. @ says the
> identifier is assigned by an organizational authority - an entity  
> that is
> _not_ an individual data authority in privacy terms.

= does not say the identifier is assigned BY a personal authority, it  
says the identifier is assigned TO a personal authority (probably by  
some organization).

I agree with Marty that metadata about what privacy rules or any  
other regulations might apply to the entity being identified would be  
better put in the metadata container, i.e. the XRD. Overloading the  
GCS character with metadata about what privacy rules apply to the  
entity being identified doesn't make sense. Otherwise we might find  
that we needed to create another GCS character for children under 13  
years of age, for example.

=vg