Composition of An Extensible Resource Identifier
An XRI starting with "=" is thought of identifying a person. An XRI starting with "@" identifies a company or organization. A starting "+" indicates a generic concept, subject or topic.
A "*" marks a delegation. For example with "=family*name", "=family" delegates the resolving of its sub-XRI "name" to another resolver. This is analogous to DNS' delegating the subdomain resolution to other nameservers (name.family.de: after resolving de, the nameserver responsible for de delegates to the family nameserver, which delegates to the name nameserver).
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