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Re: Request for well-known URI: est

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Fri, 23 August 2013 03:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: Request for well-known URI: est
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On 16/08/2013, at 6:50 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> wrote:

> Now, that's not really the fault of the EST draft at some level, because
> RFC 5785 doesn't make it clear how to specify such things in the
> registration template.
> 
>> I agree it would be useful to clarify if somebody could come along
>> later and define a .well-known location such as
>> "/.well-known/est/somethingNew". By my reading this "tree", if you
>> will, starts at .well-known/est and thus any such attempted
>> registration should fail due to the conflict.
> 
> So it seems. It's kind of like URN namespaces: we're setting up an
> authority of some sort for everything below "/.well-known/est" but we're
> really not saying how that authority needs to operate. IMHO this is a
> gap in RFC 5785...

If you want to delegate / control the name space below the space you register in well known, that's up to you; 5785 is purposefully silent about it, because you might decide to use an IANA registry for that, or you might decide to use the DNS, or use a UUID, or...

Cheers,

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Mark Nottingham   http://www.mnot.net/

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