Minutes: XRI TC Telecon Thursday 2006-12-07

["Drummond Reed" <drummond.reed@cordance.net>]

Following are the minutes for the unofficial XRI TC telecon at:

Date:  Thursday, 07 December 2006 USA (Friday morning Asia)
Time:  4:00PM - 5:30PM PT

Event Description:
Weekly unofficial call that will continue until the end of the XRI 2.0
cycle.

ATTENDING

Bill Barnhill
Gabe Wachob
Marty Schleiff
Laurie Rae
Drummond Reed
Steve Churchill
Les Chasen


AGENDA

1) INTERNET IDENTITY WORKSHOP REPORT
Gabe, Drummond, Steve, Marty, and Laurie attended IIW in Mountain View
(http://www.windley.com/events/iiw2006b/announcement). XRI was intertwined
with many discussions, particularly OpenID Authentication 2.0, which fully
integrates XRI identifiers and XRDS resolution for OpenID service endpoint
discovery. They noted the following key points:

* There is a very strong need for more documentation about XRIs, how they
can be used, what their advantages are, etc.

* There is an equally strong need for more code and examples, so developers
can more easily integrate XRI support. In particular this focused on
OpenXRI.

* There is a strong need for XRI registries and registrars to expose XRDS
service endpoint (SEP) editing, add/edit Ref elements, and add other types
of metadata. 


2) EDITING OF XRDS DOCUMENTS, SEPS, AND REFS
We discussed the behaviour of a Ref element when the value was an http(s)
URI and not an XRI, and in particular how this would affect CanonicalID
validation and trusted resolution. We also discussed whether an XRI registry
could interpret this as the need to issue an http(s) redirect.

This has been posted as issue #39 at:

	
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xri/Xri2Cd02/ResWorkingDraft11#head-cd171099efae0
96c7241d14b6054eaab3c8aea2f 

3) RELATIONSHIP OF TRUSTED RESOLUTION TO CERTIFICATES
Steve brought up the topic of how XRDs essentially operate as certificates
obtained via HTTPS or SAML signatures. The consensus was that while this is
true, it means that XRI authorities are essentially serving in the same role
as certificate authorities (CAs), so it means they will need similar
business practices.

4) XRI $ DICTIONARY REPORT
The XRI $ Dictionary editors (Marty, Laurie, and Drummond) reported on their
progress with the $ Dictionary and the results of their f2f review meeting
with Gabe that day. There was good enthusiasm about the results of the
meeting, which Laurie has captured. There should be a version of the $
Dictionary schema and XML document posted before Xmas, and the issues page
will start becoming active.

There was also discussion of where the $ registry will be hosted once it
becomes a fully operational service. Both OASIS and XDI.org were discussed.

# BILL, as a member of the OASIS TAB, will send info to the TC list about
OASIS hosting a $ registry.

4) XRI SYNTAX ISSUES
We to discuss issues at the wiki page...

	http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xri/XriCd02/Xri2dot1Formats

...but agreed to continue that on the next call.

5) XRI RESOLUTION 2.0 REPORT
Drummond reported that he has not made much more progress and was not likely
to in the next week, but that the holidays may finally afford him the time
to finish the draft. The goal for next week is to propose solutions to the
new open issues. See:
	
	http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xri/Xri2Cd02/ResWorkingDraft11 


=Drummond