[Community] xri.net & inamers.org

[Drummond Reed]

To add to Owen's explanation of xri.net, there's another factor: the OASIS
XRI TC is standardizing HTTP proxy resolution of XRIs (which is what happens
when you prefix an XRI like "=ovdavis" with an http:// plus a DNS name.) To
make it easy for software agents to recognize XRIs, the domain name for a
proxy resolver simply needs to start with "xri.". 

So XDI.ORG registered and will be running xri.net as a public XRI proxy
resolver, so anyone will be able to prefix their XRI with http://xri.net/
and have it automatically resolve in any ordinary browser.

This will be the basis for "i-link" service, one of the standard i-services
available as of the global registry launch, which will enable i-name
registrants to assign slash names under their own i-name (such as
http://xri.net/=ovdavis/photos or http://xri.net/=ovdavis/+blog) to any Web
resource.

=Drummond 
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i-name: =Drummond.Reed
http://xri.net/=drummond.reed


-----Original Message-----
From: community-bounces at idcommons.net
[mailto:community-bounces at idcommons.net] On Behalf Of Owen Davis
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 9:03 PM
To: ID Commons Developers
Cc: ID Commons Community Mailing List'; 'Ibroker-Dev List'
Subject: [Community] xri.net & inamers.org

(apologies for cross-posting, these items are of interest to all on  
the various lists)

1) XRI.NET is a new domain for i-name resolution.  thus:

     http://xri.net/=ovdavis

is the new (and preferred) way to link to your contact page.

Why the change?  As we approach the official i-name launch slated for  
Q1 2006 we needed a domain name that could be very stable.  As  
XDI.ORG is also used by the organization for it's web site and such,  
the XDI.ORG board determined it best to have a second independent  
domain for resolution.  Hence XRI.NET

2) http://inamers.org doesn't look like much at the moment, but it's  
intended to be the home for a (the?) i-name users group.  All that's  
there today is a placeholder page and easy signup for the inamers  
yahoo list.  The yahoo list is only until there's an i-name based way  
to provide the service.    ASAP there will be a wiki.

So what's http://inamers.org gonna do that's different than all these  
other lists?

Well, I believe there is a need for a site that caters to i-name  
users; it's not broker specific, it's friendly to end-users (folks  
who've registered i-names), and it's specifically about i-names (i.e.  
it is NOT technology neutral ;-)

Hope to see you there.

Regards,

Owen
http://xri.net/=ovdavis
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