Re: [xri] XRD: Separating resource descriptions from authority

[Nat Sakimura <n-sakimura@nri.co.jp>]

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From: "Dirk Balfanz" <balfanz@google.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 1:14 PM
To: "Eran Hammer-Lahav" <eran@hueniverse.com>
Cc: <xri@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: Re: [xri] XRD: Separating resource descriptions from authority

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com> 
> wrote:
>>> > The CanonicalID seems to be used exclusively for trust, which makes me
>>> > wonder if we shouldn't add a separate trust element that is about the 
>>> > XRD
>>> > and not about the resource. One such idea looks like this:
>>>
>>> To be honest, I'm not quite sure what the difference of <About> and
>>> <CanonicalID> is, but then I've only thought about this in the context
>>> of OpenID discovery. If you give us <About>, I don't think we need
>>> <CanonicalID>, at least not for OpenID discovery :-)
>>
>> You can have a single <CanonicalID> but many <About>s.
>
> Ah, but only if the answer to one of your other questions is that one
> XRD can be about multiple resources, right?
>

No. It is the case of one resource with multiple uri.

=nat