backchannel/endpoint URLs, desired attributes

SitG Admin sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
Sat Dec 19 00:28:00 UTC 2009


>Its absolutely amazing to me that you don't see the conflict between 
>"the level of commitment that would be necessary to push such work 
>through." and "it's not clear at this point if/when it will be 
>available or if it will be suitable for the consumer web ecosystem 
>at all."

The part of his message that you omitted held the matching negative :)

>On 12/18/2009 2:48 PM, Breno de Medeiros wrote:
>>  There is an increasing recognition of the value in tackling this. 
>>But so far I have not heard enough in the OIDF mailing lists to 
>>sense the level of commitment that would be necessary to push such 
>>work through.
>>  The European Union has been sponsoring an effort to build such an 
>>infrastructure, but it's not clear at this point if/when it will be 
>>available or if it will be suitable for the consumer web ecosystem 
>>at all.

"I have NOT heard enough [...] to sense" (emphasis mine)

Increasingly, we are seeing that it would be worth doing, but, right 
now, it hasn't been done.

-Shade


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