Re: [xri] Minutes: Special XRI TC Telecon 2-3PM PT Tuesday 2008-12-09

[Peter Davis <peter.davis@neustar.biz>]

On Dec 10, 2008, at 2:37 AM, Drummond Reed wrote:

> * Section 12 explains the use case for "scare quotes" around a  
> global XRI
> (e.g., =drummond*(+skateboard) ) is that there are cases where an  
> authority
> wants to reuse an identifier but not inherit its semantics.


I am curious, after hearing much discussions about this topic, and  
reading Nicks narrative of the use cases surrounding this proposal  
(thanks Nick), what benefit an authority gains by referencing a fully  
qualified (global) XRI within it's own namespace, if it does not want  
to inherit it's semantics, as this minute item indicates.

Specifically, if +skateboard exists, and carries globally semantic  
meaning (we universally agree what a skateboard is), how then, should  
one interpret the semantic meaning of =drummond*(+skateboard) ?  would  
it not simply be =drummond/(+skateboard), putting skateboard into a  
local scope?

=peterd