[higgins-dev] Re: Fwd: XRI/XRDS and new IdASRegistry

[Michael McIntosh <mikemci@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Will you be at the Higgins F2F in Austin?

Otherwise Friday or Monday via IRC will work for me.

Thanks,
Mike

markus.sabadello@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 09/27/2007 08:26:50 AM:

> Hello Mike,
> 
> I am sending this again.. I would really like to try and understand 
> what changes need to be done to the IdASRegistry so that it can be 
> used for your purposes too.
> 
> I have heard your concerns from different perspectives and don't 
> fully understand what needs to be done. I tried to summarize the 
> issue as best as I could in the mail below. I don't understand what 
> precisely is meant with "The IdASRegistry should be configured using
> the Configuration API". I think we should talk directly. 
> Unfortunately I will not be able to be on the call today, but maybe 
> the two of us can have a call (or IRC chat) about it next week? Monday 
maybe? 
> 
> Markus
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Markus Sabadello < msabadello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> Date: Sep 20, 2007 6:58 PM
> Subject: XRI/XRDS and new IdASRegistry
> To: "Higgins (Trust Framework) Project developer discussions" < 
> higgins-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
> 
> Hey, 
> 
> Okay I know not everyone is happy with the new IdASRegistry, and it 
> doesn't make a lot of sense that some of us are using the new one, 
> and some still the old one, right? So let's try to solve this.. 
> 
> As far as I understand, one of the main concerns is that the 
> IdASRegistry configures itself from an XRDS file (contextfactories.
> xrds). Let me point out that this is not really necessary, the 
> IdASRegistry also has methods for manually registering context 
> factories (in which case they already have to be configured). 
> 
> The IdASRegistry does NOT configure or register contexts itself. Is 
> this a problem?
> 
> In order to create (instantiate) a context, one needs an IContextId 
> (which can be constructed from a local XRDS file, an XRI or a URL). 
> Is this a problem? 
> 
> What else is a problem?
> 
> I'd really like to do everything I can to make this work for everyone.
> 
> Markus
> 
> (sorry, I dropped a few times from the call today)
>