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

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Sat, 05 October 2013 01:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [webfinger] Registration of a URN for WebFinger Properties
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> Defining the various properties and their meaning is an exercise for another
> day, but I hope you see the value in defining the URN sub-namespace.

I do, but I don't see the value of defining it *before* there's
something to register in it.  Had it been defined in the webfinger
spec, I'd say fine.  But it seems unnecessary to mint a document just
to define it.  Why not just let the first usage of it do the defining?

Barry

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