Re: [apps-discuss] Looking at Webfinger

On 4 July 2012 05:46, Murray S. Kucherawy <superuser@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 1:17 PM, John Bradley <ve7jtb@ve7jtb.com> wrote:
>
>> There are existing deployments of WF.   Changes that lead to something
>> incompatible with what is deployed
>> are likely to receive more resistance, now that we have a WG draft.
>>
>> Not that changes can't be made with rough consensus..
>>
>> It may have been easier though to have had Mark and others comments
>> before the WG draft.
>
> That might have made it easier to have included some more of the SWD
>> design.
>>
>>
> The fact that there's a WG draft now doesn't change what's been deployed.
> These are two orthogonal points.
>
> I (predictably) concur with Barry's statements about document evolution.
> The working group could conceivably completely rewrite Webfinger at this
> point if it so chooses, as driven by consensus.  That includes applying
> all, some, or none of Mark's comments, for example.
>
> If you have some changes you'd like to have the working group consider,
> the floor is open.
>

One question I've been thinking about.  Does the acct: scheme also apply to
subdomains too, or just the parent domain, or only where an email exists?

For example, are the following four, equivalent ways to describe an account?

acct:bob@facebook.com
acct:bob@www.facebook.com
acct:bob@graph.facebook.com
https://graph.facebook.com/bob

>
> -MSK
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