<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I have no idea what the resulting document should be... that would up to your hypothetical spec. <br><br>Sent from a typo-prone iPhone</div><div><br>On Nov 5, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Santosh Rajan <<a href="mailto:santrajan@gmail.com">santrajan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Let us take the example of a hypothetical spec that allow http content negotiation. Now if <a href="http://joe.com"><a href="http://joe.com">http://joe.com</a></a> were to support this spec, and a request is made for content type "application/xrd+xml" at <a href="http://joe.com"><a href="http://joe.com">http://joe.com</a></a>, what should be the Resource returned by <a href="http://joe.com"><a href="http://joe.com">http://joe.com</a></a>?<div>
1) The host-meta of <a href="http://joe.com"><a href="http://joe.com">http://joe.com</a></a>?</div><div>2) Or Joe's personal XRD (<a href="http://joe.com"><a href="http://joe.com">http://joe.com</a></a> happens to be his OpenID too).</div><div><br></div><div>My contention is that both XRD's are same and both will have the same Subject <a href="http://joe.com"><a href="http://joe.com">http://joe.com</a></a>. It is the application requesting the Resource that will differentiate the Resource based on context.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 6:20 AM, John Kemp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@jkemp.net"><a href="mailto:john@jkemp.net">john@jkemp.net</a></a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Nov 5, 2009, at 4:36 PM, John Panzer wrote:<br>
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(3) My XRD has no Subject element, so I use as its Subject the URI (user account) I started discovery on.<br>
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Which would have the same semantics as an XRD whose Subject contained a (special) URI which meant "the user account I started discovery on" (which is not the actual URI of the user account I started discovery on).<br>
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- johnk<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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