RE: [xri-editors] RE: [xri] W3C comment addendum

["Lindelsee, Mike " <mlindels@visa.com>]

Our approach has been to extend the current FAQ, so I think we could
just replace the existing one with a newer version.

Mike 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Drummond Reed [mailto:drummond.reed@cordance.net] 
>Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 11:18 AM
>To: Lindelsee, Mike ; xri-editors@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: RE: [xri-editors] RE: [xri] W3C comment addendum
>
>I think this approach makes sense. I agree that a FAQ is the 
>best approach
>for the Web/identifier-savvy audience, and it is easier to 
>evolve as the
>specs and technology moves forward. And this allows the Intro 
>doc to stay at
>a higher level.
>
>Mike, would you see this FAQ as one that can replace the 
>current XRI TC home
>page FAQ (or would it just be referenced from there?)
>
>=Drummond 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lindelsee, Mike [mailto:mlindels@visa.com] 
>Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 10:19 AM
>To: xri-editors@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: [xri-editors] RE: [xri] W3C comment addendum
>
>Gabe and I have come to the conclusion that we really have two
>audiences: the Web/identifier-savvy audience and a less technical
>audience.  It's unlikely that the Intro doc will work for both
>audiences, so we're working on a revised FAQ for the more technical
>audience and cleaning up the Intro doc for the less technical audience.
>
>Our goal is to get docs out to the editors' group that we think are
>complete.  I think that the priority is to get material out that will
>help the more technical audience understand XRI, so we are focusing on
>the FAQ first.  We'll have that to the editors' group on or before 5/27
>and will have our revision of the Intro doc to the group the following
>week (6/3).
>
>Hopefully we'll be able to have a quick round of 
>feedback/edits and then
>put the docs out to the TC.
>
>If anyone thinks this is the wrong approach, let us know.
>
>Mike 
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Drummond Reed [mailto:drummond.reed@cordance.net] 
>>Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 4:45 PM
>>To: xri@lists.oasis-open.org
>>Subject: [xri] W3C comment addendum
>>
>>The W3C's comment addendum (see below) strongly suggests that 
>>our revision
>>to the "Introduction to XRIs" document should include the 
>following key
>>points:
>>
>>1) That any native XRI can be downcast into a legal IRI or 
>>URI, and thus can
>>maintain complete compatability with the W3C TAG dictum about 
>>identifying
>>all resources with URIs (see 
>>http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#pr-use-uris); 
>>
>>2) The only reason native XRI syntax is not native URI syntax 
>>is because XRI
>>syntax extends URI syntax; and
>>
>>3) The reason native XRI syntax extends native URI syntax is 
>>because XRI
>>adds syntactic features that are not available in native URI 
>>syntax (or else
>>we would have used URIs). Obviously we feel these syntactic 
>>features are
>>highly desirable in uniform abstract identifiers or we would 
>>not have gone
>>to the great lengths we have to produce the XRI specifications.
>>
>>On this last point, I agree very much with Gabe and Mike that 
>>the revised
>>Intro doc needs to make it very clear that having a unified 
>>syntax for both
>>persistent and reassignable identifiers is only one of these 
>>features, and
>>not the most important.
>>
>>Mike, Gabe: how is the revision to the Intro doc going? I'm 
>>going to take an
>>action item to start a status list of errata fixes and 
>>proposed revisions to
>>the Committee Drafts; I'll try to have it posted early this week.
>>
>>=Drummond 
>>http://public.xdi.org/=Drummond.Reed
>>
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