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

[Breno de Medeiros <breno@google.com>]

-1 to this change.

Can you explain why the simplification is worth the cost of making a
last-minute change and sowing uncertainty at this last stage?

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:49, Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com> wrote:
> 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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