Re: [webfinger] New WebFinger Draft posted

Why not have the client always offer items in the array in order? Any reason to randomly select items from the array?

Paul

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From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
Sent: Sat Aug 17 14:49:05 EDT 2013
To: Mike Jones <Michael.Jones@microsoft.com>
Cc: "Paul E. Jones" <paulej@packetizer.com>, webfinger <webfinger@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [webfinger] New WebFinger Draft posted

On 17 August 2013 20:45, Mike Jones <Michael.Jones@microsoft.com> wrote:

>  When used, the ordering can do good.  When not used, it does no harm.
> Please leave it in.
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Mike, my question related to how the client can *know* when it's used and
when it's not used.  This seems unclear?

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> On 17 August 2013 20:32, Paul E. Jones <paulej@packetizer.com> wrote:****
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> We have been asked about this before. If we leave it in, it meets the
> needs of some. I admit there might be cases where it's hard to control
> order, but if it matters, there is at least a way.****
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> In my own implementation, I assign an integer value to each entry and sort
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> I have no strong objection either way, but I do think it's good to have
> for those who care.****
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> I understand the trade offs.  However, I can see that this is useful in
> many cases, particularly this would work well for openid, but other use
> cases, eg to have a friends list, for something like a federated social
> web, would then be perhaps impractical with JRD (not the end of the world,
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> *From:* Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Sat Aug 17 14:12:11 EDT 2013
> *To:* "Paul E. Jones" <paulej@packetizer.com>
> *Cc:* webfinger <webfinger@ietf.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [webfinger] New WebFinger Draft posted****
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> On 9 August 2013 18:09, Paul E. Jones <paulej@packetizer.com> wrote:****
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> Folks,
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> As we're trying to bring the WebFinger spec to a close, we published a new
> version -17 with some changes the WG might want to consider.
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> Draft is:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-17
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> Those changes are:
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> - Section 2, added a new last paragraph to explain what URI syntax we use
> in
> WebFinger
> - Corrected error in section 3.2 ("Host:" line in example and quotes around
> "3.2")
> - We remove the words "absolute URI" since it's really redundant
> - Added "query target" to 4.5 for clarity
> - Introduced a new section 8 that describes "WebFinger" applications.  This
> is a major new addition.
> - Added a new section 10.3 and 10.4 to address registration of link
> relation
> types and properties.  Link relations types already have a registry and we
> refer to existing procedures.  WebFinger properties did not have a
> registry,
> so we define one, primarily for the purpose of helping people avoid
> creating
> redundant definitions.
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> If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to post to the
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>    The order of elements in the "links" array indicates an order of****
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>    preference.  Thus, if there are two or more link relations having the****
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>    same "rel" value, the first link relation would indicate the user's****
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>    preferred link.****
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> Maybe remove this altogether, as I am unsure it can be guaranteed.****
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> Case 1: Let's say I have a list of friends, how am I to determine as a
> server the preferred friends?  How am I to determine as a client whether
> the friends are ordered or not?****
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> Case 2: Say I mash up data from two sources, how do I then order the
> combined list?****
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