Markus,
Thanks for your thoughtful response. I’m
in the midst of a deadline crunch, and I will digest this and respond by end
tomorrow.
~ Steve
From: Markus Sabadello
[mailto:markus.sabadello@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 3:06
AM
To: Steven Churchill
Cc: xri@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [xri] CanonicalID
verification text for section 11.
Hello,
Great text, I admire everything Steven writes :) This should help a lot put
CanonicalID support correctly into OpenXRI. Here are some comments..
- The priority attribute for LocalID and CanonicalID should be mentioned in
section 3.3.3 ("Priority Attribute") and maybe also in 3.2.3
("Authority Synonym Elements").
- Lines 81-82: I think this is only true if it is not the local canonical
identifier itself that is resolved. For example, in figure 11-2, if I resolve
=!1, then I think I should get * jane.doe in the <LocalID>, not !1.
- Lines 153-155: Same as above.
- Line 82: A small typo, "LocalId" should be "LocalID"
- Lines 151-152: "There must be at least one local canonical identifier
for each parent-child relationship"... Maybe add something like
"...in order for the graph to be verifiable"? After all, the
<CanonicalID> is still optional.
- Line 18: Shouldn't this say xrd:XRD/xrd:Service/xrd:ProviderID instead of
xrd:XRD/xrd:ProviderID ?
- One thing that sounds a bit strange to me is that you always speak of
"synonyms" even if there is only a single subsegment that establishes
a parent-child relationship. For example, 11.2.7.1
says "there must be at least one local synonym for each parent-child
relationship". Is it still called synonym if it's only one? But I guess
that's only a detail..
I also have a very non-technical question.. Line 9 says "These replacement
semantics are clearly not parent-child semantics"... Then what does it
actually mean to use Refs? Assume I am an ordinary user who has no idea how XRI
works, and I have two i-names =ms and @id*markus, which I want to be synonyms.
How do I decide which one is the "original" "hierarchical
parent-child" authority, and which one is "just" the Ref-using
synonym?
Markus
On 6/2/07, Steven
Churchill <steven.churchill@xdi.org>
wrote:
Drummond,
Attached
are my changes for section 11.
I
still owe the changes for Appendix E. (These are small.)
~
Steve
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