Re: [apps-discuss] .well-known as a one stop shopping location for Web Services identifiers

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Mon, 18 February 2013 01:07 UTC

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On 18/02/2013, at 11:32 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> wrote:

> Now the argument for the API: or WS: (Web Service) method is a lot harder, I agree. But given that it is prime real estate, doesn't it make best sense to share it equitably?

*If* your proposal for how to use it is, as I said, actually useful and attractive to web developers. 

Cheers,

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