XNS Specification Finally Released

Gleep The Dragon writes: "After many months of back room wrangling it looks like XNSORG has finally managed to get the legal stuff out of the way so that they can publish the XNS specification. You can pick it up here. In case you haven't heard about this effort, here's how they describe it on the XNS.ORG web site: 'eXtensible Name Service (XNS) is an open, XML-based protocol for digital identity and relationship management. Originally developed by OneName Corporation, it has been released under an open public license to the non-profit XNS Public Trust Organization (XNSORG) to govern on behalf of the Internet community.'"

yippee!

[heldlikesound]

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[4/3PI*R^3]

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Not the network protocol?

[photon317]

They should have picked another name. XNS will always mean to me Xerox Network Systems [cisco.com].

Re:And we should use this instead of...

[Drummond]

XNS is a digital identity protocol specification that Liberty could build off of the same way it is building off of SAML and other XNS security specifications. But the two are not synonomous.

XNS lays a Web services foundation for digital identity management. Every identity is treated as a logical XML document and XNS specifies the addressing syntax for these documents and attributes and the services available from an XNS identity. So it has a broad range of applications from from single sign-on to digital wallets to distributed document management.

Re:And we should use this instead of...

[Wesley Felter]

Because Liberty Alliance has not released any specs!