RE: [xdi] Dollar Words

[Michael Schwartz <mike@gluu.org>]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Barnhill, William [USA] wrote:
>

> That aspect (slightly modified from what's on wiki) is a proposal that $ 
> words should be resolvable by default so we should reserve @xdi and make 
> $ a synonym of @xdi($), so $d is a synonym for @xdi($)*d.  This will 
> allow the dictionary itself to be processed as an XDI graph and also 
> demonstrates a convention for a well known location for data authorities 
> to put up their own custom dictionaries:  SOME.AUTHORITY($).  Further 
> down the road this could be used to enable several potentially useful 
> features such as dictionary importing, custom $ words as namespace 
> shorthand.
>
> A secondary proposal would be that dollar words for use in an authority's graph may be defined in @xdi($) and in any of the graphs produced by replacing 0 or more of the tail sub-segments in an authority's delegation chain with a single ($), up to but not including the starting GCS.
> Example:
>
> @example*alice+friend might have $ words defined in
> 1.  @xdi($)
> 2. @example*alice+friend($)
> 2. @example*alice($)
> 2. @example($)

I'm not sure I understand SOME.AUTHORITY($), but in general I like the 
idea that people can define their own dictionary.

- Mike