Re: [xri-comment] Re: [OpenID] [xri-comment] My Feedback for XRD Vrsion 1.0

[Will Norris <will@willnorris.com>]

first of all, I've removed general@openid.net from this thread.  xri- 
comment is the right place to discuss XRD... there's no need to hijack  
the OpenID list as well.  If people there care to follow this  
discussion, they can join the xri-comment list.


On Nov 9, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Santosh Rajan wrote:

> I think the whole problem is with the definition of the XRD, as I have
> suggested in the original post. We need to see the XRD not not as
> "describing a resource", but as an "aggregator of a set of  
> resources". I
> will rewrite the definition of an XRD.

So you're telling me that a specification entitled "Extensible  
Resource Descriptor" is not actually about describing resources?   
Really?

One of the things it describes about a resource is the relations that  
resource has with other resources.  This is done in the form of one or  
more <Link> elements.  But this is not the only way the resource is  
described.  It is also described by <Alias> identifiers, as well as  
<Type> values (soon to be renamed to <Property>).  In addition,  
because the document is extensible, the resource may be described in  
any number of ways by extension elements.

XRD is a resource descriptor; it describes a resource.  That's what it  
is.  I don't know how to make it any plainer.  You can redefine the  
scope all you want, but realize that you would then no longer be  
talking about XRD.

-will