RE: [xri] Solution for host-meta

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

All XRD needs to say is the Subject is the identifier of the resource being described, and that the XML schema data type is URI.

I can put in there whatever I feel like as long as it is syntactically correct.

EHL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Cantor [mailto:cantor.2@osu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:19 PM
> To: 'John Bradley'
> Cc: 'XRI TC'
> Subject: RE: [xri] Solution for host-meta
> 
> John Bradley wrote on 2009-08-25:
> > So I read that as your vote is for prefixing the host name with a
> > OASIS defined URN.
> 
> I prefer that to XRD saying anything about allowing URIs and things
> that
> just look like them. As I read the current proposal, though, I guess
> XRD
> says nothing? So some other spec says "this bogus thing here means
> host",
> and XRD doesn't really know anything about it. Also ok with me.
> 
> > If we could make it Subject or Host  I would be more comfortable with
> > <Host> but we cant do that in the XSD.
> 
> The XSD just reflects what we choose, so if Host were the decision,
> obviously we could add that into a <choice> alongside Subject. I accept
> that
> people don't like that and understand why (it's not extensible to any
> other
> use cases and requires special element recognition).
> 
> -- Scott
> 
> 
> 
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