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Subject: Re: [xri] Top Ten XRI Requirements
You are right, xavier. I am too close the heirachical things i fear :-)
--- peterd
xavier serret wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Maybe I'm miss-interpreting this but "delegation" does not imply
> "hierarchy" but just a directed graph (from which a tree is a notorious
> example). Interpreted like this I'm fine with the text.
>
> Xavier.
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter C Davis [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 5:50 PM
> To: Drummond Reed
> Cc: '[email protected]'
> Subject: Re: [xri] Top Ten XRI Requirements
>
>
> Drummond Reed wrote:
> <snip/>
>
>>5) Peer-to-peer: the ability for any resource to serve as its own root
>>identifier authority (i.e., no centralized or absolute authority
>
> required).
>
>>6) Unlimited federation: the ability for identifier authority to be
>>delegated to any depth.
>>
>>7) Context addressability: the ability for a resource to be identified in
>>the context of another resource.
>><snip/>
>
>
> I am not certain that the "federation" decsription is quite in line with
> the industries (recent) understanding of the term. Here, as stated, it
> implies a heirarchical relationship, but federations (as defined in my
> mind based on the Liberty Alliance activities and working definitions),
> is more closely related to peer-to-peer. that si to say:
>
> Unlimited Federation: allows for the identifier authority to construct
> arbitrary associations with other authorities identifiers.
>
> I think this is more consitant with want is reflected, then, in items 5
> and 7
>
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