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Re: [OAUTH-WG] Web Finger vs. Simple Web Discovery (SWD)

Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> Fri, 13 April 2012 16:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Web Finger vs. Simple Web Discovery (SWD)
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On 12 April 2012 13:00, Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> those who had attended the last IETF meeting may have noticed the ongoing
> activity in the 'Applications Area Working Group' regarding Web Finger.
> We had our discussion regarding Simple Web Discovery (SWD) as part of the
> re-chartering process.
>
> Here are the two specifications:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jones-appsawg-webfinger-03
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jones-simple-web-discovery-02
>
> Now, the questions that seems to be hanging around are
>
>  1) Aren't these two mechanisms solving pretty much the same problem?
>  2) Do we need to have two standards for the same functionality?
>  3) Do you guys have a position or comments regarding either one of them?
>

No mention of Linked Data?  (eg JSON LD).  Even tho it's used to discover
data by most governments, the world bank, over 2000 retailers, all major
search engines?

Webfinger I love the concept, but seems overly complicated to me.
Introduction of the acct: scheme seems unnecessary.  No where in the spec
does it cover how to get from mailto:user@host -> acct:user@host which, if
im not mistaken, seems to defeat the object of the forward lookup.  From a
practical perspective it seems both xml and json must be supported which is
an added layer of complexity.

Also note that discovery is an additive process... in a certain way, you
could say, the more the better :)


>
> Ciao
> Hannes
>
> PS: Please also let me know if your view is: "I don't really know what all
> this is about and the documents actually don't provide enough requirements
> to make a reasonable judgement about the solution space."
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