Currently if one found a federation metadata
document on the park bench and had questions about it that required human
assistance you would need a priori knowledge to find a contact person.
Federation metadata should include a well defined reference to associated
contact info.
Proposal:
Add a new section preceding the example document section 3.1.16.
3.1.xx ContactInfoAddress Element
The OPTIONAL <fed:ContactInfoAddresses>
element allows a federation metadata provider
to specify the endpoint addresses to be used for contacting the metadata
provider for further details on the services and capabilities described in
the metadata. This element populates the [Federation Metadata] property.
The schema for this optional element is shown below.
<fed:ContactInfoAddresses>
( <fed:WebPage> xs:anyURI </fed:WebPage> *
<fed:Email>
xs:anyURI </fed:Email> * ) +
...
</fed:ContactInfoAddresses>
?
/fed:ContactInfoAddresses
The content
of this OPTIONAL element is one or more elements that provide references to
web pages with contact info about the federation services and/or an email
address to use as a contact point.
This element allows other attributes to be added so long as they do not alter
the semantics defined in this specification.
/fed:
ContactInfoAddresses/fed:WebPage
This element
of type xs:anyURI MAY appear 0 or more times, it’s content should be a
valid [HTTP] scheme URI that resolves to a web page with contact information
regarding the federation services and/or metadata document.
/fed: ContactInfoAddresses/fed:Email
This
element of type xs:anyURI MAY appear 0 or more times, it’s content
should be a valid [mailto] scheme URI regarding the federation services
and/or metadata document.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
The mailto URL scheme
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2368.txt
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