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Re: [apps-discuss] The acct: scheme question

Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> Tue, 26 June 2012 12:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] The acct: scheme question
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On 22 May 2012 09:22, Murray S. Kucherawy <msk@cloudmark.com> wrote:

>  As we prepare to bring webfinger into appsawg, it looks a lot like
> there’s substantial discussion just on the point of the proposed “acct:”
> scheme.****
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> So, a question for those tracking the discussion:  Is this a big enough
> topic that it should be split into its own document?  This would be a
> useful thing to decide as we figure out how to handle the work once it
> enters working group mode.****
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> ** **
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> (This by itself has me wondering if we should revisit the conversation
> about whether webfinger needs its own working group, but I’ll leave it to
> Barry and Pete to make that call.)
>

There has been some discussion of this here and on other lists, and the
consensus I think is for people to follow the process at :

<uri-review@ietf.org>.

I think the current state of play is that webfinger can be used with any
URI type e.g. mailto: http: acct: etc. acct: is recommended in the RFC.

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> -MSK****
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