Talk:I-name

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In response to the suggestion that inumber be merged into the article on iname, I strongly disagree. Though the concept of iname is generally much better known than inumber, that is specifically because inames are the human-friendly form of XRIs intended for human consumption. By contrast, inumbers are the persistent form intended primarly for machines. However, architecturally inumbers may in fact be more important, as XRI is the first global identifier standard that incorporates both human-friendly reassignable identifiers and persistent identifiers in the same syntax and resolution protocol.

Further, the policies around iname and inumber management vary dramatically. To see just how significant this is, read sections 4.2 and 4.3 of the XDI.org Global Services Specifications (GSS).

    -DrummondReed, Co-Chair, OASIS XRI & XDI Technical Committees, [1]