Re: [xri] Pre-draft of "HTTP-based Resource Descriptor Discovery"

[Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>]

Title: Re: [xri] Pre-draft of "HTTP-based Resource Descriptor Discovery"

Thanks. I will change the draft to address the concerns about Site-meta making it easier to follow. I guess I skipped the part of going from the URI to the /site-meta document, looking for the template, applying it, and getting the resource descriptor location...

As for the state of things, well, people should be playing with them, but I would not ship products just yet. Especially using 1st or 2nd drafts...

EHL


On 1/8/09 9:18 AM, "Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten" <joseph.holsten@cordance.net> wrote:

> First, thanks a bunch! I'm so glad to see such an important piece of
> the puzzle getting solved.
>
> It looks like the only significant issue with the spec is how to use
> resource descriptor discovery with site-meta. In particular, it is
> not clear what the appropriate way to handle a non-http and non-https
> link would be. Is it appropriate for an https uri to fall back to
> http? What's the upcoming format? Does it actually specify the link-
> template element (which isn't in draft-...-site-meta-00)? There is
> too much ambiguity surrounding site-meta right now.
>
> I'm really afraid of an informal draft of poco referencing an
> informal draft of oauth-disco referencing an informal draft of xrd
> referencing an informal draft of http-resource-desc-disco referencing
> an informal draft of site-meta. Especially with people trying to
> build opensocial containers which should implement that whole
> informally specified stack. Shouldn't I be afraid?
>
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