RE: [xri] V4 of Requirements & Glossary doc

["Drummond Reed" <drummond.reed@onename.com>]

Gabe, great feedback. Comments inline below.

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>From: Wachob, Gabe [mailto:gwachob@visa.com]
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>Drummond-
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>112: "based predominantly" - I'd say "Internet identifiers" rather than
"Internet infrastructure"

Agreed.

>127: "Tim Berners-Lee and associates" could be interpreted as a
perjorative statement (though i know you don't mean it that way). Better
say "Tim Berners-Lee and other architects of the WWW" or something
similar.

You're right, will do.

>131: Where does the number 3 billion come from? The number of
URI-identified resources is probably infinite, actually. Every web page,
every email address, every *geographic location* (I believe there is a
GEOURL effort going on somewhere), etc. I think maybe you mean HTTP URIs
here, but even there, its hard to quantify numbers since HTTP URIs are
becoming "semantic" and thus don't correspond to concrete resources.

It was a figure from an Internet architecture report that is likely
outdated anyway. I'll change the reference.

>144: Is the motivation for URNs really abstractness? If so, why? I
think URNs *tend* to be abstract because anything non-abstract tends to
be non-persistent. What makes URNs distinct is the persistence and its a
happy (though not totally random) side-effect that they tend to be
persistent. I'm about to propose something about de-emphasizing URN-ness
(completely) and (in parallel thought) I think maybe talking about URNs
here may be a little distracting.

As you and I have talked, I agree with de-emphasizing "URN-ness" and
emphasizing the requirements around fully abstract identifiers, because
that is the heart of the motivation behind XRIs.

>171-172: I've never seen URN's (as a formal concept) nested in URIs.

Totally correct. Dave Wentker caught that to. The text should have said
"persistent identifier strings" rather than "URNs", which by definition
are absolute. Again, I need now to rewrite this whole section with the
new change of emphasis on URNs.

=Drummond