Re: [xri] VUHID

[Drummond Reed <drummond.reed@xdi.org>]

Nat,

I too have seen this fascination with numbers. The Indian government was also very focused on it.

As you know, XRI i-numbers are simply persistent strings - they can take any actual format. XDI.org restricts them to hex digits in the XRI global registry services simply for consistency, but even those are not strictly "numbers".

=Drummond

2010/6/24 Nat Sakimura <n-sakimura@nri.co.jp>

Found this document http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/download/attachments/37749863/VUHIDdemo6-10-10.ppt

Seems to try to solve what XRI originally intended to.
It is a number only format. I do not know why people "like" long numbers.
It has no authentication.

There is a similar discussion going on at the Japanese Government.
They also only talk about "numbers", and do not talk about "authentication".

It is a great mystery to me why people think of "numbers" are the silver bullet for solving identity problems.