RE: [xri] Implementations and Interop

Great proposal!

 

From: Wachob, Gabe
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Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006
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Subject: [xri] Implementations and
Interop

 

Moving forward, I think it is extremely important that we
have validated multiple interoperable implementations of XRI parsing and
resolution before we should call our specifications final. Toward that end, I
would

 

1) Like to hear who is implementing the current draft
specifications (and who is these implementations publicly). 

 

2) When we could set up a interop event (probably a
"virtual" event to start) to test both interoperability and to
validate that the specification is understandable and unambiguous. 

 

Toward these ends, I have set up a set of pages on
our wiki (linked off of the front page at http://xri.oasis-open.org/xri under
Interop and Conformance Testing). 

 

For a "virtual interop" event (which should also
lead to significant feedback on the spec itself), I propose we have
participants set up resolution servers and implement resolution of a variety of
test XRI deployments which excercise multiple features. Participants testing
client implementations should then run all tests against all participants
testing server implementations. I actually think we have some interesting
interop testing issues with proxying and lookahead that we'll have to think
through as we get closer. 

 

I propose sometime in late February for this first interop
event - this implies the resolution specification will have settled down a
while before this. I certainly hope this is the case. 

 

At some point, we will publish these test
"cases" in some more formal way beyond the wiki. We'll certainly want
to publish *results* moving forward. 

 

For those contributing to the spec, I would especially
encourage you to go over to the wiki and start building out the test cases.
This is *absolutely* critical if we are going to have a usable spec in the
wild. 

 

THANKS

 

    -Gabe

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