FW: New Version Notification - draft-hammer-hostmeta-09.txt

Santosh Rajan santrajan at gmail.com
Mon May 24 09:05:31 UTC 2010


I like this Eran, mmmmmmmm,

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran at hueniverse.com>wrote:

> After much (re)deliberation and discussions, I've decided to drop the
> <Host> element from host-meta. The two reasons why it was there were:
>
> 1. make host-meta self-contained so it can be obtained via other means than
> /.well-known/host-meta
> 2. provide a subject for signatures
>
> Since there are no use cases for #1, and #2 has failed to materialize after
> more than a year of discussions (still no signature profile published), I
> have decided that for the sake of simplicity and practicality to remove the
> element. host-meta doesn't address security and it should not provide a hook
> for future security profiles - that's their job. Those who find a need for
> expressing the subject of a host-meta XRD (or JRD) can add it back in their
> own spec (or make up something else).
>
> -09 dropped the element.
>
> Note that there is going to be a -10 coming out shortly which merges LRDD
> back into host-meta, dropping links from HTTP headers and HTML bodies (which
> don't have any driving use cases).
>
> EHL
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Internet-Draft at ietf.org [mailto:Internet-Draft at ietf.org]
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 12:45 AM
> To: Eran Hammer-Lahav; draft-hammer-hostmeta at tools.ietf.org;
> stpeter at stpeter.im
> Subject: New Version Notification - draft-hammer-hostmeta-09.txt
>
> New version (-09) has been submitted for draft-hammer-hostmeta-09.txt.
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hammer-hostmeta-09.txt
>
>
> Diff from previous version:
> http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-hammer-hostmeta-09
>
> IETF Secretariat.
>



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