Extensible Identity Services as a piece of the web services jigsaw...

[sbisson]

Greg pointed me at this (xns.org) last night.

It looks interesting, and seems to fit in with a lot of my thinking on direct URI interactions as an approach to publish and subscribe web services. I really need to bash this into a column for dannybradbury at ADA, but I need to give it a bit more thought yet (and anyway, I'm planning on writing about Jabber this month).

It seems to be coming together though... I can see how the three different standards offer what's needed: XNS for naming and location services, RSS for high level metadata, and RDF for deep metadata.

(fx:thinks)

Comments

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

What branch of Zooko's Triangle (explained by Clay Shirky) does it occupy?

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Get it right, and it should be at the top. There's no point in the bottom right as this is for linking autonomous computing enclaves. Bottom left is a possible for certain applications, especially in financial services.