Re: [xri] Solution for host-meta

[John Bradley <jbradley@mac.com>]

If you want it to be a registered scheme use dns:example.com

The / are omitted because the authority is not required the host-name  
is part of the path.

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4501.txt

I don't think you ned the port number.  One of the pints of host-meta  
is that it can be used by multiple schemes like mailto: if people want  
to.

I don't mind making up a new scheme for this.

If we do that can we make up xri: as well for unbound XRI?
It would be the same argument.

John B.

On 25-Aug-09, at 4:22 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:

> I don't know why I didn't think about this before. As indicated in  
> my last email, this is what I propose we do:
>
> * Drop the match attribute.
> * host-meta will use <Subject> with the string 'host-meta:// 
> example.com:80'.
> * host-meta will state that the string is not a valid URI and is  
> only used for trust purposes.
>
> Since XRD <Subject> has no current requirement for the URI scheme to  
> be valid or registered, only that the syntax of the string comply  
> with RFC 3986, this solves everyone's problem without actually  
> having to create/register a new URI scheme.
>
> EHL
>
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