RE: [xri] Passion about problems!

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

Drummond, 

Let me clarify that I'll be trying to express how using XRI helps to
solve identification issues in a distributed, federated environment.  My
description isn't going to be Visa-specific, but focused on the general
issue.

Mike

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Drummond Reed [mailto:drummond.reed@cordance.net] 
>Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 7:07 PM
>To: xri@lists.oasis-open.org
>Subject: RE: [xri] Passion about problems!
>
>XRI TC Members and Observers:
>
>RE completion of our fourth and final deliverable, the XRI Primer, the
>participants on today's call agreed that the most important 
>element of the
>XRI Primer is descriptions of the ACTUAL PROBLEMS that TC 
>members are trying
>to solve with XRI. It is very easy to generalize once we have specific
>articulations of these problems; it is much harder to go in the reverse
>direction.
>
>To that end:
>
>* Dave McAlpin signed up to provide an articulation of the problems of
>network indirection that Epok is using XRI to solve.
>
>* Mike Lindelsee signed up to provide an articulation of the 
>primary types
>of distributed, federated network identification problems that Visa
>International is trying to solve with XRI.
>
>* I have signed up to provide an articulation of the types of privacy
>protection problems that Cordance is trying to help solve.
>
>I strongly urge any other TC member who cares about a 
>particular problem
>they are using XRI to solve to send me a *few short paragraphs* that
>describe that problem in your own words - the same way you 
>would describe it
>to a customer or partner who ask you the question, "What type 
>of problem are
>you solving with XRIs? Why?"
>
>If you can send me those problem definition statements by 5PM 
>NEXT TUESDAY
>FEBRUARY 22, it will make it much easier for Fen and I to 
>complete the rest
>of the first draft of the Primer by next Friday.
>
>Thank you,
>
>=Drummond