Re: [xdi] Minutes: XDI TC Telecon Friday 2013-04-19

["Chasen, Les" <les.chasen@neustar.biz>]

Wow … you can't have simple namespace delegation anymore?  

From: Drummond Reed <drummond.reed@xdi.org>
Date: Monday, April 22, 2013 5:32 PM
To: Markus Sabadello <markus.sabadello@xdi.org>
Cc: OASIS - XDI TC <xdi@lists.oasis-open.org>, Phil Windley <pjw@kynetx.com>
Subject: Re: [xdi] Minutes: XDI TC Telecon Friday 2013-04-19

- Community names such as =neustar*les don't work anymore, because the instance *les can't follow the singleton =neustar. Do you have any idea on how to solve this?

Markus and I talked about this for nearly an hour. The bottom line is that to be consistent with the full XDI graph model, *names and !numbers need to behave consistently as instances, which means they only follow a class (in square brackets). So it means that community names need to specify the class before the instance, e.g., =neustar[+employee]*les. Or they can use a cross-reference such as =neustar=(les). Or, for a pure name registry, it would be an instance of the mutable ID class, e.g., =neustar[*]*les. (Ugly but semantically consistent.)