[OpenID] Calling for Rejecting webfinger, host-meta, lrdd, xrd

[Santosh Rajan]

John,
If you want we can leave out my reference to the other threads. In this
thread I am only posing one question which I think should be clear to
everyone.


On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 11:02 PM, John Panzer <jpanzer at acm.org> wrote:

>  Santosh,
>
> To tell you the truth, I did not understand your prior objections (and the
> discussion has morphed a lot so it's difficult to understand the current
> state of your objections).  I also don't understand your assertion below "if
> you want to buy..." and how it connects to your prior objections.  Note that
> I'm not asserting that your objections are wrong, just that I don't
> understand them.  I suspect there are lot of people in the same boat as I
> am.
>
> John
>
> Santosh Rajan wrote:
>
> I am calling for the rejection of webfinger, host-meta, lrdd, xrd, lock,
> stock and barrel. There are many reasons for this. If you have read previous
> posts at the Openid forum you will understand that there are too many
> reasons for this. Just read the last few threads on this forum and you will
> know why.
>
>  Here I want to start the discussion on this rejection with the definition
> of a "Resource".
>
>  "A URI-addressable network document or service".
>
>  So If you want to buy the current story given by the webfinger,
> host-meta, lrdd, xrd folk, they need to prove that an XRD is NOT "URI
> addressable", if they want to ignore the Subject of the XRD. This also
> applies to host-meta.
>
>  So I would like to hear from the supporters of webfinger, host-meta,
> lrdd, xrd.
>
>  This is not to suggest that I am not a supporter of all these specs. On
> the contrary I do support these specs provided we can come with a simpler
> spec for 1.0 based on the fundamental arguments I have been postulating on
> this forum in the last week or so.
>
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