[OpenID] Open Challenge to webfinger and XRD

[John Bradley]

Hi Santosh,

I am having a hard time following your point.

This is the current draft of the XRD spec.
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/34724/xrd-1.0-wd09.html

There is no <Host>  element in the spec.

The Subject of a XRD is the <Subject> of the XRD there can be 0 or 1  
in an XRD.

HostMeta is a spec that uses the OASIS XRD spec.

I know that they want to have what is essentially an abstract Subject.

ie one that is about the host and not the URI.

This is a URL problem and not an XRI one.

Any number of wars have been fought over how to represent non- 
information resources with URI.

We did give the group working on host-meta as a itef spec some options  
on how they might do that.

Using the DNS scheme or a URI fragment are all possibilities.  I don't  
know if they have come to a conclusion.   Whatever they decide someone  
will be unhappy if history is anything to go by on this topic.

There is a public review period for XRD coming up and a process for  
you to make formal submissions if you want to have input but not join  
the TC.

John B.

On 2009-10-19, at 3:27 PM, Santosh Rajan wrote:

>
> This is an Open Challenge i am sending to the webfinger, XRD forums.  
> These
> guys really think I am an Idiot. "Maybe I am". "BUT I AM NOT GOING  
> DOWN
> WITHOUT A FIGHT".
>
> Really, I really don't know. Let us hear the arguments they give.  
> Maybe i am
> a brainless stupid, that is why i feel all of them are hollow. But  
> let them
> prove I am stupid. "IF THEY CAN", IF they can, we will hand it to  
> them, "THE
> IDENTITY OSCAR".
>
>
>
> Hi All,I know you guys don't like to hear from me. I have been told  
> so much.
> By your moderators. That people on this forum are not "Happy" to  
> hear from
> me.
> Like it or "NOT" you are going to hear from me. I am not sure if  
> this post
> of mine will be allowed to be published. But let us see.
> I have so many grouses with "XRD" and today I am going to start with  
> my
> first grouse. Since WebFinger by definition is going to follow XRD,  
> don't
> argue with me about webfinger. Lets talk about XRD to start with me.
> I am throwing a challenge to all the XRD guys. Prove to me that the
> <Subject> of an XRD host-meta document has to be <Host> instead of
> <Subject>. If you "smart" guys can prove this to me, I will agree  
> that "I am
> a complete Idiot". If "NOT" all of you web fingerer's and XRD's are
> Idiots!!!!
>
> -----
>
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