Agenda: XDI TC Telecon Thursday 1-2PM PT 2008-10-09

Following is the agenda for the unofficial telecon of the XDI TC at:

Date:  Thursday, 09 October 2008 USA
Time:  1:00PM - 2:00PM Pacific Time

TO ACCESS THE AUDIO CONFERENCE:
    Dial In Number: 571-434-5750
    Conference ID: 3526


AGENDA

1) UPDATE ON XRI PROGRESS

John and Drummond will give a brief update on progress in the discussions
between the XRI TC and W3C TAG.


2) DEMO: XDI SIGNATURES AND LINK CONTRACTS

Markus has updated his implementation of XDI link contracts in XDI4j
according to the pattern at:

	http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xdi/XdiOneIssues/LinkContractPattern  

If he's able to join us, he will give a demo of how this works with his XDI
Local Messenger application:

	http://graceland.parityinc.net/xdi-localmessenger/XDILocalMessenger

We'll also discuss how this can work with the current OpenID TX work being
pursued by Nat and Tatsuki.


3) $ADD$$

In Higgins-related work, Markus, Drummond, and Paul have repeatedly seen a
pattern where an XDI client needs to request that an XDI server assign an
XRI for a new resource. This is normally a $add operation, but typically
that would produce a simple $true or $false response from the server. In the
same pattern of using a return type modifier, such as $get$a$xsd$boolean to
request a $true/$false answer as to the existence of an XDI resource, Markus
and Drummond are proposing using the XDI variable $$ modifier with $add,
i.e., $add$$, to request that the server perform the $add operation and then
return the XRI assigned to the resource.