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:
- Why distributed directories, digital identity frameworks, ontologies, reputation systems, and other emerging Web technologies need abstract structured identifiers.
- The problems XRI and XRDS solved for OpenID Authentication 2.0.
- How XRI syntax combines the best features of URNs (Uniform Resource Names) and HFNs (Human-Friendly Names).
- How XRIs are backwards-compatible with URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) and IRIs (Internationalized Resource Identifiers).
- How XRDS documents are rapidly becoming the defacto service discovery format for user-centric identity and data portability.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/332275036
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:
- Support for discovery of XRDS documents from URLs ("Yadis").
- Detailed service endpoint selection rules.
- An expanded set of synonym elements and automatic synonym verification.
- Support for redirects and delegation between XRI identifier authorities.
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.