Minutes: XRI TC Telecon 2-3PM PT Thursday 2010-03-25

Following are the minutes of the unofficial telecon of the XRI TC at:

Date:  Thursday, 25 March 2010 USA

Time:  2:00PM - 3:00PM Pacific Time (21:00-22:00 UTC)

ATTENDING

John Bradley

Markus Sabadello

Drummond Reed 

Eran Hammer-Lahav 

Will Norris 

REGRETS

Breno de Medeiros 

 

GUESTS

Joe Boyle 

 

1) XRD 1.0 CD02 SCHEDULE

 

Will sent an
updated CD02 package to Mary McRae with current OASIS boilerplate.

 

In terms of
overall timing, Eran said we still need to wait for the Web Linking specs to be
approved by IESG before XRD 1.0 can go to Committee
Specification. After IESG approves it, it can take from 2-6 months before
it will be an RFC. 

 

So the
consensus was that we will wait until the CD public review is complete, then
check with OASIS about what the actual dependencies on IETF references are for
us to move to Committee Specification and then to OASIS
Standard.

 

 

2) XRD
LINKING/DELEGATION/INCLUSION

 

Will
brought up that Google still has the use case of needing one use case that
needs to link/delegate/include another XRD, and what the trust characteristics
are. He has the action item to bring that to the TC once Google is ready.

 

 

3) PROPOSAL FOR AN X.509-BASED XRI
TRUST PROFILE 

 

           
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xri/201001/msg00083.html

 

Breno was not able to attend the call,
so this was postponed to next week. Will said he was also working with Breno on
this, and that he'd try to have the two of them ready by then.

 

4) XRI 3.0 SYNTAX AND RESOLUTION

           
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/35972/xri-syntax-3.0-wd03.pdf

 

Drummond explained that the next step
is for additional read-throughs of the spec. The only feedback so far is Paul
Trevithick who suggested it needed more examples (it has almost none at
present).

 

Joe volunteered to review the spec with
fresh eyes and send any feedback to Drummond. 

 

We discussed the best overall direction
for XRI resolution. John noted that what's becoming popular is WebFinger and
acct: identifiers. 

 

We discussed acct: URIs. Eran said that
at the last IETF meeting there was general consensus that they are needed, and
the only discussion was about the syntax. 

 

Essentially WebFinger is doing LRDD
discovery on an acct: URI. Eran said that there will be a spec for acct: URIs,
and it will probably include a brief reference to using LRDD for discovery of
an acct: URI. It is unclear whether that spec will be called WebFinger.

 

John pointed out that from an XRI standpoint,
every acct: URI would be considered an XRI  root authority. Every acct: URI is a one-segment XRI resolved
through LRDD. One question: can acct: URIs contain relative URIs, or do we need
to treat them separately?

 

In any case, XRI Resolution 3.0 could
just be a combination of LRDD discovery and XRI authority service relations.
There was agreement this was the approach that made sense, which means we will
have some dependencies on those specs.

5) NEXT CALL

 

The next call is next week at the
regular time. However there will NOT be a call the following week (April 8) due
to spring break and travel.