Re: [webfinger] FW: [apps-discuss] I-D Action: draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-08.txt

Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> Sat, 22 December 2012 18:46 UTC

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On 12/21/12 6:32 PM, Tim Bray wrote:
>
> Unless the Architecture of the WWW ( http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/) 
> has been repealed, these are instances of URIs, whose function per 
> rfc3986 is to Identify resources. I don't see how it could be any clearer.
>
> A good thing about WF is that it's just good basic Web stuff. No 
> semantic castles in the sky required.
>
Look, we've long implemented Webfinger, Linked Data (see: DBpedia and 
the LOD cloud), and very sophisticated stuff via those "semantic 
castles". And guess what, it's all driven by a clear understanding that 
URIs denote things.

Anyway, I thought to share some guidance from our real world experience 
re. service development and deployment, that's it. Other than that, we 
already have Webfinger working in ways that simply amplify the 
virtuosity of AWWW.



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