Re: [xri] GCS Characters

["Markus Sabadello" <markus.sabadello@xdi.org>]

Why would you ever want to put a company into the context of an
individual (what does =drummond@microsoft.com mean??). To me it makes
sense only the other way round, i.e. @microsoft.com=drummond.

And something that never appears anywhere can hardly confuse people, or? :)

Markus

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 7:25 PM, John Bradley <jbradley@mac.com> wrote:
> I spent some time on the phone yesterday with Steve Churchill reviewing the
> proposal on GCS symbols in XRI 3.0.
>
> He reminded me that one of the original objections was allowing:
> =drummond@microsoft.com
> http://xri.net/=drummond@microsoft.com
>
> This in 2.0 would be represented as:
> =drummond*(@microsoft.com)
> http://xri.net/=drummond*(@microsoft.com)
>
> In removing the need for parenthesizing cross-references we run the risk of
> people misconstruing direct concatenated XRI as email addresses or otherwise
> trying to read the first XRI segment from right to left.
>
> The problem is alleviated slightly by having the XRI bound to a scheme.
>
> This is a  social engineering problem rather than a actual resolution issue.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> John B.
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