Re: [OAUTH-WG] [apps-discuss] Web Finger vs. Simple Web Discovery (SWD)

2012-04-21 Thread Paul E. Jones
Note that requiring both would only be on the server side. While JSON might be the new hip format, I suspect some will use XML for some time. And there are some link relations that might point to XML content. For certain applications like OpenID Connect, they could get by with JSON only, but I b

Re: [OAUTH-WG] [apps-discuss] Web Finger vs. Simple Web Discovery (SWD)

2012-04-21 Thread SM
Hi Paul, At 20:34 20-04-2012, Paul E. Jones wrote: My preference has been MUST for XML and JSON since 1) XML is already a MUST in RFC 6415 and we'd have to "break" what is there now to remove the MUST and 2) people are clearly demanding JSON. MUST for XML and JSON offers choice but it does make

Re: [OAUTH-WG] [apps-discuss] Web Finger vs. Simple Web Discovery (SWD)

2012-04-21 Thread Tim Bray
That might have happened had there been some free high-quality ASN.1 software, instead of slow buggy parsers that cost $50K to license. It’s always seemed to me that one reason XML took off so fast is that there were fast robust open-source parsers in C and Java before the spec was even finalized.