Re: [webfinger] [appsawg] #12: Semantic gap for the client side

[Barry Leiba <[e-mail]>]

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> 2. The JRD name/value pairs that can be returned for any given URI scheme.

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> Neither this document nor the acct: URI document gives any guidance about
> what set of links will be returned for the acct: URI. The semantics of
> querying for the acct: URI are never defined. It gives examples using the
> acct: URI, but it never actually defines what links or other properties an
> acct: URI can return.
>

Let me stick something in here:

There are two ways we can get interoperability from this.  One is to
explicitly specify everything that might be returned from a particular
query.  Another is to make sure that what gets returned is self-defining.
 The latter is the point of link relations -- the link relation tells you
what the link means, so the recipient knows whether it understands this
type or not, and, if it understands it, knows what its semantics are and
what to do with it.

Barry