On 12 April 2012 13:00, Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofe...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi all, > > those who had attended the last IETF meeting may have noticed the ongoing > activity in the 'Applications Area Working Group' regarding Web Finger. > We had our discussion regarding Simple Web Discovery (SWD) as part of the > re-chartering process. > > Here are the two specifications: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jones-appsawg-webfinger-03 > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jones-simple-web-discovery-02 > > Now, the questions that seems to be hanging around are > > 1) Aren't these two mechanisms solving pretty much the same problem? > 2) Do we need to have two standards for the same functionality? > 3) Do you guys have a position or comments regarding either one of them? > No mention of Linked Data? (eg JSON LD). Even tho it's used to discover data by most governments, the world bank, over 2000 retailers, all major search engines? Webfinger I love the concept, but seems overly complicated to me. Introduction of the acct: scheme seems unnecessary. No where in the spec does it cover how to get from mailto:user@host -> acct:user@host which, if im not mistaken, seems to defeat the object of the forward lookup. From a practical perspective it seems both xml and json must be supported which is an added layer of complexity. Also note that discovery is an additive process... in a certain way, you could say, the more the better :) > > Ciao > Hannes > > PS: Please also let me know if your view is: "I don't really know what all > this is about and the documents actually don't provide enough requirements > to make a reasonable judgement about the solution space." > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OAuth mailing list > OAuth@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth >
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