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

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Fri, 21 December 2012 21:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [webfinger] FW: [apps-discuss] I-D Action: draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-08.txt
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No. The I in URI stands for Identifier. URIs identify resources, that’s
what they’re for. -T

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>wrote:

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> Could this:
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>  WebFinger is used to discover information about people or other
>    entities on the Internet that are identified by a URI [6] or IRI [7]
>    using standard Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) [2] methods over a
>    secure transport [14].
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> become:
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>  WebFinger is used to discover information about people or other
>    entities on the Internet that are *denoted* by a URI [6] or IRI [7].
> Actual information retrieval uses
>    standard Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) [2] methods over a
>    secure transport [14].
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> --
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> Regards,
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> Kingsley Idehen
> Founder & CEO
> OpenLink Software
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