Re: [xri] Pre-draft of "HTTP-based Resource Descriptor Discovery"

[Joseph Anthony Pasquale Holsten <joseph.holsten@cordance.net>]

First, thanks a bunch! I'm so glad to see such an important piece of  
the puzzle getting solved.

It looks like the only significant issue with the spec is how to use  
resource descriptor discovery with site-meta. In particular, it is  
not clear what the appropriate way to handle a non-http and non-https  
link would be. Is it appropriate for an https uri to fall back to  
http? What's the upcoming format? Does it actually specify the link- 
template element (which isn't in draft-...-site-meta-00)? There is  
too much ambiguity surrounding site-meta right now.

I'm really afraid of an informal draft of poco referencing an  
informal draft of oauth-disco referencing an informal draft of xrd  
referencing an informal draft of http-resource-desc-disco referencing  
an informal draft of site-meta. Especially with people trying to  
build opensocial containers which should implement that whole  
informally specified stack. Shouldn't I be afraid?

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