Pathway C of 5
Resolution
What happens between an identifier and the information about it?
Identity Records, authority verification, lookup, disclosure policy, lifecycle, representation negotiation, and the typed outcomes that end resolution.
Steps
Seednote
Identity Record
The durable registry record of one RID’s registration, lifecycle, naming, provenance, and authoritative bindings.
Viewgraph
The anatomy of an Identity Record
What an RSM Identity Record contains, keyed by RID: the required minimum, the recommended additions, and the things it deliberately does not hold.
Seednote
Resolver
Connects identifiers to verified, policy-permitted identity information and available representations.
Viewgraph
The resolution sequence
The logical steps a conforming resolver follows, the eight typed outcomes, and how Document 08 v1.1 maps them to HTTP without leaking what policy keeps private.
Fieldnote
Why resolution is not simply fetching a document
Why RSM ID resolution verifies authority, evaluates lifecycle and disclosure, and negotiates a representation instead of following a link to a file.
Seednote
Identity lifecycle
The registry status of an RID: active, deprecated, superseded, retired, or reserved.
Viewgraph
Identity lifecycle
Reserved, active, deprecated, superseded, and retired as Document 08 v1.1 defines them, with the permitted transitions and why no state ever frees an RID for reuse.
Demonstration · on this site
Resolve an identifier
Follow any sample through the eight stages, then see the HTTP response a conforming gateway would give.