Overview#
I-name are identifiers resembling Domain Names, designed for simplicity and ease of use.I-name are one form of an XRI — an OASIS open standard for digital identifiers designed for sharing resources and data across domains and applications.
I-name are human readable XRIs intended to be as easy as possible for people to remember and use. For example, a personal i-name could be =Mary or =Mary.Jones. An organizational I-name could be @Acme or @Acme.Corporation.
Though typically long-lived, I-name may, like domain names, be transferred or reassigned to another resource by their owners. For example, a company that changes its corporate name could sell its old I-name to another company, while both companies could retain their original i-numbers. What most differentiates i-names from domain names is that in practice they will have a synonymous (equivalent) persistent i-number (below).
More Information#
There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:- [#1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-name
- based on information obtained 2017-07-16-