RE: [xdi] reserved words disallowed for e-names

["Loren West" <loren.west@epok.net>]

I'm not sure why we need to reserve any of these names.
If so, maybe only at the root.  Remember, XDI resources
describe people (identities) as well as data within
those identities (business cards, etc).

Although it doesn't make much sense to register people
with those restricted words, I could imagine a few 
thousand other words that don't make much sense, but
I wouldn't know why we would want to disallow them.

Can you describe to me why you want to restrict e-names,
and if so, in what namespace (=/$/@ - or some other namespace)?

Thanks,

=Loren

-----Original Message-----
From: Fen Labalme [mailto:fen@idcommons.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 10:55 PM
To: XDI TC
Subject: [xdi] reserved words disallowed for e-names


At the TC meeting in New Orleans, I mentioned that we may want to 
disallow some words as e-names in the same way the DNS Registries 
disallow single letter names and (e.g.) example.com

I have taken a stab at an initial set of reserved words here:
http://xrixdi.idcommons.net/moin.cgi/EnamesAndEnumbers#head-bb873c830605d42e
40754efd118bfc9bcdb75c17

Please read and comment.

Thanks,
Fen

PS: I'm not a member of the XRI list - perhaps this note should be 
forwarded there, too?