Re: InfoWorld: OASIS seeks URI scheme that accommodates XML, Web serv ices

Is there any place where one can read more about this? I can't
grok what it is or what problem it'll solve from this article ..

Thanks,

Sanjiva.

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From: "Champion, Mike" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 7:02 AM
Subject: InfoWorld: OASIS seeks URI scheme that accommodates XML, Web serv
ices


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> http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/03/01/08/030108hnxri.xml
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> 'The OASIS Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) Technical Committee will
> define a URI scheme and a corresponding Uniform Resource Namespace (URN)
for
> a common identification scheme across domains, applications, and transport
> protocols. The plan also involves developing mechanisms for resolving XRIs
> and exchanging data and metadata associated with XRI-identified resources,
> OASIS said.
> "XRI is about creating a common URI for how we will refer to distributed
> information, whether it's objects in a directory service [such as user
> objects], or dealing with files in different servers or with different
types
> of documents that might be in different systems," said Justin Taylor,
chief
> strategist for directory services at Novell, which is participating in
OASIS
> and XRI development.'
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> Comments?