XRI (and xdi?) public discussion list?

The recent thread on 
how to construct an XRI for a particular purpose was an excellent exposition of 
the architectural precepts behind XRI, and its a great example of the types of 
questions potential users and developers are going to have, moving 
forward.

 

Since there is 
likely to be an *increase* in these sorts of questions, from folk outside OASIS 
as well as within, I propose we setup some form of *public* email list for 
discussion and guidance on the use of XRIs. This is outside the 
standards-setting process of OASIS and should be open to anyone (perhaps with 
moderation?) and should be publicly archived. 

 

I do not believe 
OASIS provides these facilities, but there are a number of ways we could do this 
without OASIS support. A variety of XRI and/or XDI participants have the 
facilities for hosting publicly archived email lists and this could be done in 
short order. Or, we could set up a yahoogroup. 

 

The list would be 
something like .com">xrixdi@<somehost>.com 

 

I think we on the 
TCs can then use this discussion list (which is two way, as opposed to the 
comment list at Oasis, which is one way) to feed our discussions, especially as 
pertaining to education and positioning. More importantly, however, I think this 
email list will be valuable as an educational device to get the word out about 
XRI, XDI and the use of these technologies. There would be no 
requirement on the part of XRI or XDI TC members to paricipate. No 
standards making decisions would be made in these lists.

 

There is precedent 
for this. The W3C Semantic Web "Interest Group"  (formerly the RDF Interest 
Group) has a public email list which is used for discussion of RDF& Semantic 
Web, but is not where normative discussions about RDF take place (that happens 
within the tighter confines of the RDF Core Working Group at W3C). 

See http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/interest/

 

Thoughts?

 

    
-Gabe

 

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