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

[John Panzer]

Okay -- just assume I'm stupid about this:  What's the question?

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Santosh Rajan <santrajan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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