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Extensible Name Service (XNS) is an open protocol for universal addressing and automated data exchange. It is an
XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. T ...
-based
digital identity A digital identity is information used by computer systems to represent an external agent – a person, organization, application, or device. Digital identities allow access to services provided with computers to be automated and make it possibl ...
architecture.


History

The development of XML in 1998 led to the XNS project, and the establishment of an international non-profit governance organization, XNS Public Trust Organization (XNSORG), in early 2000. In 2002, the XNS specifications were contributed by XNSORG to
OASIS In ecology, an oasis (; ) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environment'ksar''with its surrounding feeding source, the palm grove, within a relational and circulatory nomadic system.” The location of oases has been of critical imp ...
, where they became part of the
XRI An Extensible Resource Identifier (abbreviated XRI) is a scheme and resolution protocol for abstract identifiers compatible with Uniform Resource Identifiers and Internationalized Resource Identifiers, developed by the XRI Technical Committee at OA ...
(Extensible Resource Identifier) and
XDI XDI (short for "eXtensible Data Interchange") is a semantic data interchange format and protocol under development by the OASIS (organization), OASIS]XDI Technical Committee The name comes from the addressable graph model XDI uses: every node in the ...
(XRI Data Interchange) Technical Committees. Together these two standards, XRI and XDI, form the basis for the formation of the Dataweb. XNSORG has since evolved into XDI.ORG, and now offers community-based XRI/XDI infrastructure.


See also

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OpenID OpenID is an open standard and decentralized authentication protocol promoted by the non-profit OpenID Foundation. It allows users to be authenticated by co-operating sites (known as relying parties, or RP) using a third-party identity provider ...


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XNSORG

XDI.ORG
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