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:
- 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.