Resolution: ... where's "Drummond Reed" in the XRDS?

[Nick Nicholas <opoudjis@optushome.com.au>]

Now, you don't have to change what you're doing for this, but:

Exec Summary: why does the string "Drummond Reed" not occur in the  
=drummond XRDS?

Exec Lemma: service-independent descriptions (like the string  
"Drummond Reed") help guarantee persistence.

Exec Suggestion: would a prose description service endpoint (the  
reverse of http://thing-described-by.org/ ) help?

Exec Realisation: An XRI with users managing their own XRDS may not be  
compatible with archival notions of persistence.

Discursive blog posts:

http://interopporesearch.blogspot.com/2008/11/xri-handle-and-persistent-descriptors.html
http://interopporesearch.blogspot.com/2008/11/xri-handle-and-persistent-descriptors_19.html


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