Les,
We anticipate zero impact on authority
resolution or service selection. The Yadis spec deals only with the process of
retreiving an XRDS docment from an HTTP(S) URI.
=Drummond
From: Chasen, Les
[mailto:]
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 11:41
AM
To: Wachob, Gabe; Drummond Reed;
Cc: Johannes Ernst; Recordon,
David; Larry Drebes; James Bryce Clark (James Bryce Clark); Ram Kumar
Subject: RE: [xri] Incorporating
Yadis into XRI Resolution Working Draft 11
How does this impact authority resolution
and service selection? If there are no impacts than I think this makes
perfect sense.
=les.chasen
http://xri.net/=les.chasen
From: Wachob, Gabe
[mailto:]
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 2:04 PM
To: Drummond Reed;
Cc: Johannes Ernst; Recordon,
David; Larry Drebes; James Bryce Clark (James Bryce Clark); Ram Kumar
Subject: RE: [xri] Incorporating Yadis
into XRI Resolution Working Draft 11
XRI TC Members-
Drummond posted this
notice on Saturday May 22. I want to make sure anyone who wants to object to
this additional material has the chance to do so before we consider the
decision made.
I think the synergy with
a significant grassroots community such as the one building around YADIS will
help *our* effort significantly. That being said, it is beyond awfully late and
I have pushed back on other changes due to the lateness of the timing -- if you
have this sort of pushback to this proposal, please speak up now.
Basically, what we are
proposing to do is add a section to XRI resolution which includes the
contents of section 6 of the YADIS spec [1]. As Drummond mentioned, this
section will describe how to discover an XRDS associated with an *HTTP
URI*-identified resource - for the YADIS purposes or (more in alignment with
things we've been doing) to discover a *synonym* for an HTTP URI that might be
an XRI (the possibilities here are interesting, to say the least).
-Gabe
[1] http://yadis.org/papers/yadis-v1.0.pdf
From: Drummond
Reed [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 1:44
PM
To:
Cc: 'Johannes Ernst'; Recordon,
David; Larry Drebes; James Bryce Clark (James Bryce Clark); Ram Kumar
Subject: [xri] Incorporating Yadis
into XRI Resolution Working Draft 11
XRI TC Members and Observers:
Most of you are aware that the XRI
resolution document format, XRDS, was adopted late last year by the Yadis
project (http://www.yadis.org) as their
format for simple service discovery. After the Internet Identity Workshop two
weeks ago (http://iiw.windley.com/wiki/Main_Page),
at which there were several sessions on XRI, members of the Yadis community
mentioned to Gabe and I that they were interested in Yadis becoming an
“official” standard from a recognized standards body.
Since Yadis already uses a
substantial part of the XRI Resolution 2.0 specification, they asked if the XRI
TC would be interested in having it be incorporated as part of the spec.
Gabe and I subsequently reviewed the
Yadis 1.0 specification (http://yadis.org/papers/yadis-v1.0.pdf)
and agreed that it should fit cleanly as a section of the XRI Resolution 2.0
specification on obtaining XRDS documents from HTTP URIs.
At the OASIS Symposium last week we
checked with Jamie Clark, OASIS Director of Standards Development, to see if
there were any impediments to doing this, and he said that it should be very
easy and straightforward, especially considering that several XRI TC members
were contributors to Yadis.
So, in an email conversation
yesterday between Gabe and myself and several of the principal contributors to
Yadis, we concluded that we should proceed full steam ahead provided both
communities were in support of this effort. Messages are going to both mailing
lists today to request any further feedback. Provided that there are no major
objections, a contribution will be made on behalf of the Yadis community and we
will begin work ASAP on the integration of Yadis into Working Draft 11 of XRI Resolution
2.0 with the goal of completing the work no later than the start of the Berkman
Identity Mashup on June 19 (http://www.identitymash-up.org/).
Please do post with any feedback you
might have.
Best,
=Drummond
(http://xri.net/=drummond.reed)
