• WorkGroups

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This page is for discussion of how the XDI TC will organize its work to prepare the XDI 1.0 specifications.

Organizational Guidelines

On the 2008-02-21 TC telecon, there was consensus on the following guidelines:

1. Use lightweight workgroups. Workgroups are lighter weight and faster than subcommittees. Also, they don't require dedicated mailing lists. (The exception might a formal subcommittee for the ATI model if that makes sense; still TBD.)

2. Organize around specification topics. While workgroups don't need to be strictly organized around deliverables, we should organize around the key gaps we have identified in the specs we want to publish.

Proposed Specs/Workgroups

Following is the proposal started on the 2008-02-21 telecon and evolved on the 2008-02-28 telecon for structuring the XDI 1.0 specification suite and associated workgroups.

XDI Overview and Conformance 1.0

• Introduction
• Overview of XDI Specifications
• Conformance
  • Basic XDI Client
  • Advanced XDI Client

XDI RDF Graph Model 1.0

• Metamodel
• Infoset
• Addressing
• Abstract API

XDI Serialization 1.0

• X3
  • X3 Standard
  • X3 Whitespace
  • X3 Simple
• RNC
• XSD

XDI REST-Based API 1.0

• Messages
• Operations
• Errors
• HTTP Binding
• Security

XDI Asynchronous API 1.0

XDI Dictionaries 1.0

• Typing
• Comparisons
• Transformations
• Versioning
• Localization

XDI Context Discovery 1.0

• Contexts
  • Global Contexts
  • Document Context
  • Subcontexts
  • Supercontexts
• Context Types
• Context Discovery

XDI Versioning 1.0

• Version Levels
  • Context
  • Subject
  • Predicate
• Version Logging
• Version Snapshots
• Version Addressing

XDI Link Contracts 1.0

• Authentication
• Permissioning
• Policy Binding
• Synchronization
• Contract Negotiation

XDI Queries 1.0

Potential Additional Specifications

XDI Signatures