[OpenID] Comment on new Draft host-meta

[John Bradley]

The point of host-meta is to provide a way to resolve the XRD for non  
http: URI that the author who controls the DNS authority may wish to  
have resolved.

As an example the email address john at example.com is not a http URI.

Example.com may or may not want to provide XRD for there email  
addresses.

Being explicit about what URI schemes the host-meta XRD covers allows  
the XRD author more control.

What the host-meta people are doing is creating a extension element so  
that the host-meta XRD can be explicit about what additional non http- 
schemes  they want to provide identifier to meta-data mapping for.

LRDD/Webfinger/host-meta should be thought of as the the next  
generation of Yadis not XRI.

There will be a XRI resolution spec.  It has been decoupled from the  
XRD spec so that any issues the W3C may have with XRI won't hold up  
XRD for use in other resolution protocols.

John B.

On 2009-10-25, at 12:36 AM, SitG Admin wrote:

>> The example however speaks for itself and (formal writing issues  
>> aside)
>> seems obvious and useful.
>
> Now . . . silly question, here, but it's been bugging me for a  
> while, so:
>
> Why can't the XRD file simply *contain*, in some (optional) element 
> (s), the very information that would normally be documented in  
> whatever page it was pointing at with the Subject field? In other  
> words, if it is (implicitly) its *own* Subject, what (other than  
> more bandwidth usage) can result in embedding the rules it will  
> abide by?
>
> I'm overstepping my understanding of XR* here, though, and  
> speculating on what Subject is there for.
>
> -Shade
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