Re: [apps-discuss] draft-farrell-decade-ni-02 - we think this is done...

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Thu, 05 April 2012 21:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] draft-farrell-decade-ni-02 - we think this is done...
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On 04/05/2012 10:22 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> On 5 April 2012 13:10, Stephen Farrell<stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>  wrote:
>> So, please take a read if you're interested in naming things
>> with hashes and send your comments.
>
> This is my remaining concern.  The draft uses /.well-known/ as the
> base "locator".  That severely limits its use.  Access to
> /.well-known/ is necessarily constrained.
>
> I might want to identify a resource outside of /.well-known/.  I might
> also want to identify a resource that is served elsewhere.  I can't do
> either with this scheme.
>
> I'd prefer something that allowed for the embedding of a complete HTTP
> URI.  Bonus credit for embedding a any URI.

Sure. We added that though in section 5. (For URLs anyway.)
Be glad to add more text that makes that clear, and happy
to say its usable with other schemes if you can offer good
words for that.

Cheers,
S.

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