Re: [Gen-art] /.well-known placed below the URI local-part root

2020-04-30 Thread Nico Williams
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 09:32:27AM +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote: > (a) (b) Appendix A already talks about it some: > > """ >Why aren't per-directory well-known locations defined? > Allowing every URI path segment to have a well-known location > (e.g., "/images/.well-known/") would

Re: [Gen-art] /.well-known placed below the URI local-part root

2020-04-30 Thread Mark Nottingham
Hi Nico. (a) (b) Appendix A already talks about it some: """ Why aren't per-directory well-known locations defined? Allowing every URI path segment to have a well-known location (e.g., "/images/.well-known/") would increase the risks of colliding with a preexisting URI on a s

[Gen-art] /.well-known placed below the URI local-part root

2020-04-30 Thread Nico Williams
RFC 8615 (and RFC 5785 before it) says that .well-known should be at the root of the URI local-part. Appendix A explains the rationale. However, I'm seeing multi-tenancy in OpenID, with URI local-parts of the form /${tenant}/.well-known/openid-configuration, which is not the intended usage. /.we