Re: [xri] XRD: Separating resource descriptions from authority

[Dirk Balfanz <balfanz@google.com>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com> wrote:
>> > The CanonicalID seems to be used exclusively for trust, which makes me
>> > wonder if we shouldn't add a separate trust element that is about the XRD
>> > and not about the resource. One such idea looks like this:
>>
>> To be honest, I'm not quite sure what the difference of <About> and
>> <CanonicalID> is, but then I've only thought about this in the context
>> of OpenID discovery. If you give us <About>, I don't think we need
>> <CanonicalID>, at least not for OpenID discovery :-)
>
> You can have a single <CanonicalID> but many <About>s.

Ah, but only if the answer to one of your other questions is that one
XRD can be about multiple resources, right?

Dirk.
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> EHL
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