Re: JRD, XRD Re: Webfinger

On 02/02/2015 11:46 AM, Harry Halpin wrote:
> [please keep this cc'ed to Social Interest Group]
> 
> On 02/01/2015 09:59 PM, Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
>> ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ wrote:
>>> I would prefer not to put limitations of JRD upon our work, and use
>>> webfinger *only* as a way to get equivalent http: / https: URI for
>>> URIs using other schemes acct: , mailto: , xmpp: etc.
>>
>> I had a look at the Webfinger specification.
>>
>> JRD (JSON Resource Descriptor) does not look like something I want to
>> use in the future. It is a JSON-formatted XRD document and has its own
>> media type (application/jrd+json). And XRD (eXtensible Resource
>> Descriptor) is "a simple generic format for describing and discovering
>> resources".
>>
>> Something like Webfinger but based on JSON-LD might be good, but that
>> depends on it being in scope here.
>>
>>> Then stating the actual relations (links/predicates) in JSON-LD 
>>> document representing particular resource.
>>
>> +1
> 
> Note that WebFinger dropped XRD support, included the support for the
> non-standard XRI class of identifers. It supports only JRD. However,
> there is no reason why you couldn't use JSON-LD with JRD:

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?q=webfinger+json-ld
for relevant conversations from webfinger standardization process e.g.

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https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/apps-discuss/3vexx4nYjTa30pIQK_rqpBb2DjQ
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https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/apps-discuss/1wyqrPqpohpmSm5KfO0OkUjI_po

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