RE: [xri] Linked XRD Processing Rules

[Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Breno de Medeiros [mailto:breno@google.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 10:24 AM
> To: Eran Hammer-Lahav
> Cc: XRI TC
> Subject: Re: [xri] Linked XRD Processing Rules
> 
> Think of webfinger as a directory lookup. You might want to point to
> information hosted in other providers. For instance, the manager of my
> social graph is over there, the manager of by activity stream is over
> here.

I expect webfinger to make extensive use of 'describedby' rels for linking to such information. But that is completely different than having that information be considered an atomic part of the root XRD document for accounts.

EHL