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Re: [apps-discuss] Looking at Webfinger

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Tue, 03 July 2012 07:26 UTC

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On 03/07/2012, at 5:24 PM, Mike Jones wrote:

> You've essentially described Simple Web Discovery!  It avoids the complications introduced by host-meta exactly by using its own .well-known value.

This makes me happy. :)

So, what's the current state of SWF vs. webfinger? I thought I'd see an announcement go by that webfinger was going to become a WG draft.

Sorry for not keeping up, but I can only digest so much e-mail at once...

Thanks,

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