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Subject: RE: [xri] XRI discovery -vs- resolution



I agree with Wil's point.

With regard to Les' point about DNS resolution, I feel that XRI resolution
is pretty much analogous: if you consider DNS names to be symbolic names for
a given DNS "resource", then you can view DNS resolution as "obtaining the
metadata for the given named resource". I feel that XRI resolution is the
same except that it returns an XRDS as resource metadata instead of DNS
resource metadata.

~ Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Tan, William [mailto:William.Tan@neustar.biz] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:28 AM
To: xri@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: RE: [xri] XRI discovery -vs- resolution

Discovery would be more suited to finding out the available services on an
authority (bare I-name / I-number). Whenever a service selection criterion
is present, I think the term "resolution" is appropriate.

So, there are a few operations on any given XRI:

Discover(authority) => set of services + canonical IDs + provider ID etc.
Resolve(xri, type, mtype) => set of services (mostly one) that matches the
criteria.


=wil (http://xri.net/=wil)
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor Grey [mailto:victor@idcommons.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 12:00 AM
> To: xri@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [xri] XRI discovery -vs- resolution
> 
> +1
> =vg
> 
> 
> Chasen, Les wrote:
> > I was wondering what everyone thinks about the idea of instead of
> > using the term XRI resolution we start calling it XRI discovery?


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