RE: [xri] FW: New Version Notification -draft-hammer-hostmeta-09.txt

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

They can do whatever they want, as long as it is valid according to the XRD schema. Host-meta leaves <Subject> and <Alias> undefined and not recommended.

EHL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Breno de Medeiros [mailto:breno@google.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 10:21 AM
> To: Eran Hammer-Lahav
> Cc: xri@lists.oasis-open.org; webfinger@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: [xri] FW: New Version Notification - draft-hammer-hostmeta-
> 09.txt
> 
> I suspect people will want to write a <Subject> instead of <hm:Host> now
> that it's gone. :)
> 
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 00:52, Eran Hammer-Lahav
> <eran@hueniverse.com> wrote:
> > After much (re)deliberation and discussions, I've decided to drop the
> <Host> element from host-meta. The two reasons why it was there were:
> >
> > 1. make host-meta self-contained so it can be obtained via other means
> > than /.well-known/host-meta 2. provide a subject for signatures
> >
> > Since there are no use cases for #1, and #2 has failed to materialize after
> more than a year of discussions (still no signature profile published), I have
> decided that for the sake of simplicity and practicality to remove the
> element. host-meta doesn't address security and it should not provide a
> hook for future security profiles - that's their job. Those who find a need for
> expressing the subject of a host-meta XRD (or JRD) can add it back in their
> own spec (or make up something else).
> >
> > -09 dropped the element.
> >
> > Note that there is going to be a -10 coming out shortly which merges LRDD
> back into host-meta, dropping links from HTTP headers and HTML bodies
> (which don't have any driving use cases).
> >
> > EHL
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Internet-Draft@ietf.org [mailto:Internet-Draft@ietf.org]
> > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 12:45 AM
> > To: Eran Hammer-Lahav; draft-hammer-hostmeta@tools.ietf.org;
> > stpeter@stpeter.im
> > Subject: New Version Notification - draft-hammer-hostmeta-09.txt
> >
> > New version (-09) has been submitted for draft-hammer-hostmeta-09.txt.
> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hammer-hostmeta-09.txt
> >
> >
> > Diff from previous version:
> > http://tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-hammer-hostmeta-09
> >
> > IETF Secretariat.
> >
> 
> 
> 
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