FW: New Version Notification - draft-hammer-hostmeta-09.txt

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

After much (re)deliberation and discussions, I've decided to drop the <Host> element from host-meta. The two reasons why it was there were:

1. make host-meta self-contained so it can be obtained via other means than /.well-known/host-meta
2. provide a subject for signatures

Since there are no use cases for #1, and #2 has failed to materialize after more than a year of discussions (still no signature profile published), I have decided that for the sake of simplicity and practicality to remove the element. host-meta doesn't address security and it should not provide a hook for future security profiles - that's their job. Those who find a need for expressing the subject of a host-meta XRD (or JRD) can add it back in their own spec (or make up something else).

-09 dropped the element.

Note that there is going to be a -10 coming out shortly which merges LRDD back into host-meta, dropping links from HTTP headers and HTML bodies (which don't have any driving use cases).

EHL


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Subject: New Version Notification - draft-hammer-hostmeta-09.txt 

New version (-09) has been submitted for draft-hammer-hostmeta-09.txt.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hammer-hostmeta-09.txt


Diff from previous version:
http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-hammer-hostmeta-09

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