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<font face="arial"><span style="font-size: small; white-space: normal; ">Quoting from</span></font></pre><div class="im" style="color: rgb(80, 0, 80); "><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; "><font face="arial"><span style="font-size: small; white-space: normal; "><a href="http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-hammer-hostmeta-01.txt" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-hammer-hostmeta-01.txt</a></span></font></pre>
</div><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word; ">"host-meta document SHOULD NOT include the 'Subject' or 'Alias' XRD
elements since these elements require a valid URI to identify the
resource being described, which is not available for the host-meta
scope."</pre></span><div><br></div><div>Yet you have taken the very same URI's, that should have been in the Subject and Alias fields to begin with, split them into scheme and authority, stuck them into a new "Scope" element and embelished it with a new namespace to give it more legitimacy. Logically i dont see any difference from using the Subject and Alias.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>"not available for the host-meta scope" is very different from "not available for the host-meta". You cannot justify ignoring the Subject of the XRD, based on its "Scope". The Subject of an XRD is about the XRD itself and not its scope.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The host-meta is not some "Thing" that resides in somebody's backyard, so that it cannot have a URI to identify it. As for differentiating the host-meta from the actual URL resource, haven't we already done it with the ".well-known" path? There is no valid justification to ignore the Subject here.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>As for your use of "authority", i see a couple of problems using it.</div><div>1) "authority" has a "userinfo" part that will break your usage of it in this context.</div>
<div>2) URN's do not have a authority part. scheme="acct", authority="<a href="http://yahoo.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">yahoo.com</a>" is meaning less.</div></span><br>-- <br>
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