Re: FYI: new draft of site-meta; now well-known

Brad Fitzpatrick <brad@danga.com> Mon, 13 July 2009 01:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: FYI: new draft of site-meta; now well-known
From: Brad Fitzpatrick <brad@danga.com>
To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
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FWIW, I'm happy with it, and I think I was one of the most grumpy ones about
the potential namespace conflicts of well-known URIs.  I spent a fair bit of
time writing parsers for sites and sites' URLs, so I'm acutely aware of
issues like this.  I think "/.well-known/" strikes the right balance between
obscurity (two semi-'weird' characters), and legibility, and "feels" like a
hidden directory, starting with a period.
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> No worries.
>
> One thing I'd like early and broad feedback on is that the selection of
> "/.well-known/" as the distinguished path prefix is appropriate; if someone
> has a reason that we shouldn't use this, please speak up now!
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> On 13/07/2009, at 11:33 AM, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
>  Excellent!  Thanks for writing this up!
>>
>> - Brad
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
>> See:
>>  http://bit.ly/48bdmV
>>
>> Cheers,
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