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

[Kingsley Idehen <[e-mail]>]

On 12/21/12 12:38 PM, Paul E. Jones wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I just posted a revised version of the WebFinger text.  Highlights include:
>   * Change all queries to require HTTPS only
>   * Forbid server redirection to HTTP URIs
>   * Merged the "Introduction" and "Overview" sections
>   * Moved some references to the informative references section
>   * Removed instructions for the server to return specific
>     status codes (Tim successfully argued it was not needed)
>      * Retained one statement, though, in section 4.2 that
>        requires a server to return a 400.  However, the
>        text was changed to refer to behavior in RFC 2616.
>        Same end result, though.
>   * Moved section the "rel" parameter section before the
>     JRD section.
>   * Made edits to the JRD section as discussed on the list
>   * Various editorial changes
>
> Please have a look at this text and suggest any changes we should make.
>
> Paul
>
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>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
>> directories.
>>   This draft is a work item of the Applications Area Working Group
>> Working Group of the IETF.
>>
>> 	Title           : WebFinger
>> 	Author(s)       : Paul E. Jones
>>                            Gonzalo Salgueiro
>>                            Joseph Smarr
>> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-08.txt
>> 	Pages           : 20
>> 	Date            : 2012-12-21
>>
>> Abstract:
>>     This specification defines the WebFinger protocol, which can be used
>>     to discover information about people or other entities on the
>>     Internet using standard HTTP methods.
>>
>>
>> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger
>>
>> There's also a htmlized version available at:
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-08
>>
>> A diff from the previous version is available at:
>> http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-08
>>
>>
>> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
>> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
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Paul,

Could this:

  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].

become:

  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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