We’ll be expanding the description of how community i-names work as we roll out the ability for communities to register them - which should be availability before the end of the year (or early next year). As multiple i-brokers and XDI data sharing are not yet available, cross references are not useful yet, either.

The reason it seems like we’re “doing something more specific” is because we’re strapped for cash and don’t have enough developers - but we’ll get it all happening by the end of the first quarter 2005.

And we’re packaging the i-broker code now for release - and we have two projects underway with volunteer developers to build the XRI 2.0 resolver that we need to make them work. We will absolutely keep you informed - as soon as we know! In the mean time, you might want to look at our help wanted page at http://wiki.idcommons.net/moin.cgi/HelpWanted

I’d like to see (e.g., on the 2idi site) examples of community i-names and cross-reference XRI rooting.

I know 2idi is doing something more specific than everything that’s possible with XRI, but, even having thought about XRI, i-names, and registries like 2idi for a while, it’s hard to picture the contexts that are hoped to emerge around i-names.

In other words, where am I going to be able to use my i-name, and how/why might I have more than one i-name, how would they then relate, etc?

Also, (at least personally) I’d like to know more sooner than later about how we’ll be able to build our own i-name host / i-broker. Once I have the software on my server, how does it work that the server is recognized as a i-name host or i-broker?

=jayf