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Until now, the reference (our “Relationship Layer for the Web” paper, which Kaliya referenced in her blog entry on the addition of Facebook to the OpenID board) has been available only to Burton Group customers.  I’m pleased to announce that as of today, it’s freely available to anyone at this link. 

The relationship data structure is created by someone (in the case of my example in the paper it’s created by Facebook) and it asserts information about the relationship between a set of parties.

I’m writing this from the audience of Bob Blakley’s Data Sharing Summit session (which he also gave yesterday at the Internet Identity Workshop) on The Relationship Layer. It’s based on a paper he and his colleagues Gerry Gebel and Lori Rowland written for the Burton Group (but not published yet - Bob says look for his upcoming “world’s longest blog post”). This will be followed by a session the Higgins Project that will demonstrate a new form of information card called a relationship card (r-card).

XDI.ORG is an international non-profit public trust organization governing open public XRI and XDI infrastructure. XRI (Extensible Resource Identifier) and XDI (XRI Data Interchange) are open standards for digital identity addressing and trusted data sharing developed at OASIS, the leading XML e-business standards body.

XRI and XDI infrastructure enables individuals and organizations to establish persistent, privacy-protected Internet identities and form long-term, trusted peer-to-peer data sharing relationships.

I have a huge interest in establishing a presence, anchored somewhere in the emerging identity metasystem, to which I can refer Spock and ZoomInfo and other services. If Spock inspires other folks to appreciate why they might want to establish such presences for themselves, that’d be great. And based on some of the reactions I’m seeing, perhaps Spock will help us get there.