Welcome
This is the home page of PIRP, a proposal for an internet protocol aimed at creating an universal electronic address. The idea is to extend the format of e-mail address into what we call star-address which will appear something like yourname*acme.com. Then, having this address, any device accessing the internet can connect to a PIRP server (in this case located at acme.com) and ask him for other channel-dependent addresses like e-mail and postal address or telephone numbers. In this way people will be finally relieved of knowing lots of different information about themselves and their friends only to be able to communicate with them. The time of cumbersome telephone numbers is over. Long life to the star-address!
What you will find here
On this web page you will find an introduction as well as more technical documentation of the XML-based PIRP protocol, as well as the source code of a test implementation and some examples of client applications, including some ones for handheld devices like mobile telephones.