Re: [apps-discuss] Aggregated service discovery

Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name> Wed, 23 May 2012 12:55 UTC

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Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 08:55:22 -0400
From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>
To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Aggregated service discovery
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Hi Mark,

--On May 23, 2012 4:29:24 PM +1000 Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> If they're HTTP -
> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nottingham-json-home/>

Of course we do want service discovery for non-HTTP protocols, LDAP, IMAP, 
Submission, POP3, XMPP etc. Now I could almost imagine having non-http 
resource URIs in the json-home document for these other protocols, but I 
think that would be over stepping the intent of json-home.

> Not yet convinced that well-known is needed for this yet; it's
> effectively substituting a hostname for a full URL.

Not sure what you mean by that. Obviously it is important to have just one 
jumping off point for this.

-- 
Cyrus Daboo