I agree completely that versioning the naming authority could be useful in a number of contexts, but I'm still trying to understand what exactly that would mean when it comes to resolution. For instance, how would versioned naming authorities work in a DDDS-style resolution?
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter C Davis [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 8:38 AM
> To: OASIS XRI
> Subject: [xri] versioning of authirity section
>
>
> (In case you haven't noticed, I am finally catching up on xri
> activities :-)
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> line 159:
> [ISSUE: It would be nice if naming authority parts were NOT
> versioned to
> make resolution simpler. Then, only the local part segments have
> versioning info in them, and interpretation of this versioning
> information would be local to the client and ultimate leaf
> directory. ]
>
> However, for URI-type XRI's, it MAY prove usefull to allow
> versioning of
> the authority part:
>
> xri://some.domain.int[;2001-03-04T20:15:40Z]/foo/bar
>
> esp. since URIs are re-assignable. This allows for "This was the
> authority at time T".
>
> --- peterd
>
>
