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Re: [webfinger] Registration of a URN for WebFinger Properties

"Paul E. Jones" <paulej@packetizer.com> Fri, 11 October 2013 19:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [webfinger] Registration of a URN for WebFinger Properties
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On 10/11/2013 2:57 PM, Will Norris wrote:
>
>     FOAF does not define a set of URI.  Rather, it's XML-based
>     markup.  WebFinger uses URIs as identifiers.  I don't really care
>     where those identifiers are defined, but at present there is no
>     standard property identifer in URI form that means "name".
>
>
> http://schema.org/name ?  Of course that doesn't have the language 
> fragment, though as you point out below, there's an argument it may 
> not be needed anyway.  /shrug

Yeah, that would work.  And one cold add a URI fragment to that 
definition easily enough.

These are all too easy to create.  Who will put a stake in the ground 
and declare one property ID is the standard?

Paul

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