[OpenID] host-meta and "acct:"

[Peter Davis]

On Nov 6, 2009, at 12:42 PM, John Panzer wrote:

> We have one compelling use case already where the existing <Subject>  
> doesn't work: host-meta is "about" a host, and there is no URI  
> scheme to represent Hosts (see IIW notes at https://docs.google.com/a/johnpanzer.com/Doc?docid=0AZojn6fzr_tFZGRqNjhzcXZfOWY1cXA3emY5&hl=en 
>  for alternatives considered). The simplest thing that anyone can  
> come up with for this use case that doesn't run into tripwires or  
> pitfalls is a separate element, <hm:Host>, that contains a hostname.

One possible alternative it to use the dns URI scheme (RFC4501),  
which, i think, for the purposes need here, would likely take the form:

	dns:www.example.org

you can, of course, use other aspects which might be interesting for  
use cases with host-meta such as forming dns queries in the URI to a  
dns authority of a zone returning RR types, but i do not know use  
cases for that.

=peterd

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