RE: [xri] Minutes: XRI TC Telecon 2-3PM PT Thursday 2009-07-16

[Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>]

If we want to make it extensible, it has to be an attribute (new element or not). I think we are past that. The only reason to have a new element is to allow it to use any string and not just URI. My point is that it is hard to spec how to extract the authority from any string for the trust profile.

EHL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Cantor [mailto:cantor.2@osu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:00 AM
> To: Eran Hammer-Lahav; xri@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [xri] Minutes: XRI TC Telecon 2-3PM PT Thursday 2009-07-16
> 
> Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote on 2009-07-28:
> >>> obvious authority section). This means if we create a new element,
> we
> >>> need to explicitly set the trust profile to apply only to certain
> >>> values of the match attribute... not pretty.
> >>
> >> I'm lost...you start by arguing in favor of using Subject, but the
> >> last statement implies to me that you'd prefer a separate element.
> >
> > Really?? The last statement says that if we use a separate element it
> will
> > make the spec ugly...
> 
> It says "if we create a new element, we'll have a match attribute",
> which is
> backwards to my mind. It was the case of not having a new element where
> I
> saw a match attribute, which indeed will require text elsewhere to make
> work
> (because the Subject is no longer a URI).
> 
> -- Scott
>