Re: [xri] Resolution: ... where's "Drummond Reed" in the XRDS?

["Markus Sabadello" <markus.sabadello@xdi.org>]

One advanced way of discovering name, description, etc. about the XRI
would be to look up its XDI endpoint, and then send a $get to that
endpoint.

E.g. you resolve =drummond, and then you send this to the XDI endpoint:

=nick.nicholas
   $get
      /
         =drummond

You would get something like

=drummond
   +name
      "Drummond Reed"
   $a$xsd$string
      "This is a person named Drummond Reed"
   ...

But yes, as a more lightweight approach, I guess it's also a nice idea
to have a human readable description somewhere in the XRD itself.

Markus

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Nick Nicholas
<opoudjis@optushome.com.au> wrote:
> 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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