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

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On Sat, 22 Dec 2012, Tim Bray wrote:

> I've also wondered why we don't have application/webfinger+json; seems to
> me that having your own media-type is a strong Web best practice.  Has this
> been discussed?  -T

Can you point me to references to _why_ that is "best practice"?

It's something I find quite annoying. It's application/json, being
used in a webfinger context. In some other context it could be used
for something else.

In both contexts it is a JSON representation, you use JSON tools to
process it.

Having another media-type seems to just make things more noisy. Is the
point to have some little agent sitting around being all smart because
it can trigger imporant decision based merely on the media-type of its
input? If that's so, I'm not sure I buy it: We wouldn't have gone to
this resource in the first place if we weren't hoping to get webfinger
info back.

Help me understand.

Thanks.

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