Re: [apps-discuss] Webfinger / SWD Issue #3: direct versus indirect discovery

[Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>]

Picking on a minor point here...

On 4/23/12 12:27 PM, John Bradley wrote:

> That way large sites can optimize and small sites could still use static
> files.

Is there evidence for the assumption that large services will serve
their data via an API whereas small services will serve their data via
static files? It seems clear to me that many small services might not
host static files, e.g., because they use a content management system or
community software application that automatically pulls data out of a
database of users and serves up some of that information in the form
defined by the WebFinger spec (or SWD or whatever). I rather doubt that
large services will host static files, but let's not base our design
decisions on a false premise about smaller services.

Peter

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