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

[Pelle Wessman <[e-mail]>]

Could someone please explain to me how Webfinger solves the same problem as
SWD?

Isn't Webfinger just defining a way to discover data about a user using the
"Web Host Metadata" discovery mechanism that's already defined in RFC 6415?
While SWD instead defines an entirely new discovery mechanism without
really defining how to use it to discover data about a user?

To me it seems like SWD instead solves the same problem as RFC 6415? What
am I missing?

I personally still prefer the original Webfinger proposal that didn't
really define anything extra but just showed how to use RFC 6415 to
discover data about users. The way it worked made it, as I see it, easy to
expose your data and to consume it. I don't really see a point in the
recent additions to the Webfinger draft - anything beyond specifying the
acct URL scheme and a few basic link relations seems unneeded and out of
scope to me and just complicates things.

/ Pelle Wessman


On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Hannes Tschofenig <
[e-mail]> 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?
>
> 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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