XRD 1.0 WD06 published
XRD 1.0 Working Draft 06 of OASIS XRI TC was published at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/34072/xrd-1.0-wd06.html
XRD 1.0 Working Draft 06 of OASIS XRI TC was published at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/34072/xrd-1.0-wd06.html
XRI 3.0 Syntax WD02 at OASIS Open XRI TC was published at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/33877/xri-syntax-3.0-wd02.pdf
XDI.org announced today that several XDI.org-Accredited I-Brokers are consolidating operations. =you and 2idi (a retailer of EZiBroker) are both merging their i-name customer bases into 1id.com. LinkSafe, another retailer of EZiBroker, is merging its customer base into @fullXRI.
In all cases the account transfers will take place automatically and do not require customers to take any action. Customers will receive an email from their new i-broker with instructions on how to access their account. No change in login credentials is expected, nor is any interruption in services. The transfers are expected to be completed by early April.
Said Bill Washburn, Chairman of the XDI.org Board of Trustees, “To a large extent this consolidation of i-brokers reflects the contraction the global economy is experiencing as as a whole. Smaller i-brokers are finding it more efficient to combine their operations with those that offer full i-broker platforms. The result will be leaner but stronger XRI infrastructure as we head into the third generation of XRI specifications coming from OASIS.”
Any questions about the account transfer process can be directed either to a customer’s original i-broker or to the i-broker receiving the transferred account.
June 20, 2008: XDI.org announced the addition of another accredited i-broker. @fullXRI is accepting top-level i-name and i-number registrations beginning immediately.
@fullXRI is the commercial counterpart to the popular @freeXRI site, where Internet users have been able try free i-names and i-name services for the past year. Originated as an experimental service to demonstrate capabilities of the open source OpenXRI project, @freeXRI has evolved into a versatile platform showcasing many XRI features.
@fullXRI is based in Vienna and operates servers both in Europe and the USA. For the full story, please see the article posted on the News and Events page of the inames.net website.
OASIS announced that it will hold a one-hour webinar on XRI 2.0 on Tuesday, May 6, from 11AM-noon Eastern Time. Titled, “What do OpenID, the Higgins Project, i-names, and XDI (XRI Data Interchange) all have in common?”, this free webinar is open to OASIS members and the public. It will cover the XRI 2.0 digital identifier specifications and XRDS discovery format from the OASIS XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) TC. Topics include:
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
The OASIS XRI Technical Committee has announced that XRI Resolution 2.0 Committee Draft 03 is now in a second public review. The previous Committee Draft (02) underwent a 60-day public review starting 2 December 2007. Feedback from that public review, including a simple enhancement for making XRDS documents even more extensible, was incorporated into Committee Draft 03.
This public review period will last for 15 days, until 26 March 2008. For links to the specification with change marks and instructions about how to submit comments, see the public review announcement.
OASIS announced today that Committee Draft 02 of the XRI Resolution 2.0 specification has entered public review. This draft reflects 18 months of implementation experience and feedback on Committee Draft 01, including extensive feedback from the OpenID community based on their use of XRDS documents for OpenID discovery.
New features in this draft include:
The public review period will last until 1 February 2008. For links to the specification in PDF, HTML, and DOC formats, as well as instructions for submitting comments, please see the OASIS announcement.
XDI.org, Cordance, and NeuStar are pleased to welcome another XDI.org Accredited I-Broker. =you (http://equalsyou.com). The first i-broker & OpenID provider in the United Kingdom, =you launched their global i-name registration service on 1st July 2007.
“Our aim is to provide a single, secure identity for individuals and companies on the Internet,” said =you co-owner Adam Byrne. “We will also be encouraging and assisting both UK and worldwide website owners to successfully integrate this technology sooner, enabling our users to get more from their online ID.”
=you joins the other XDI.org Accredited I-Brokers in offering global i-name registration and other XRI-based personal and business identity services including OpenID authentication.
More information about becoming an XDI.org Accredited I-Broker is available on the XDI.org Global Services Specifications (GSS) website.
June 1, 2007: Cordance and NeuStar, operators of the XDI.org XRI global registry service (GRS) under contract with XDI.org, today announced a 44% reduction in the wholesale pricing of global personal i-names (=names). This reduction, which brings pricing directly in line with the wholesale pricing of major DNS top-level domains (TLDs), should make it even more attractive for individuals to use a personal i-name as their OpenID identifier.
For full details, please see the press release on the inames.net website.
ZDNet just published an article on XRI and i-names by Phil Windley, author of the O’Reilly book on Digital Identity and creator of the Internet Identity Workshop
The article covers a number of recent developments about XRIs and i-names that were discussed at the most recent Internet Identity Workshop held December 4-6 in Mountain View, CA.