Re: Webfinger

I don't understand your objection.

Link relations are a great way to express relationships between 
entities, whether expressed as HTML or JRD. It's even supported as part 
of HTTP headers.

-Evan

On 2015-01-31 10:50 AM, ☮ elf Pavlik ☮ wrote:
> On 01/31/2015 04:33 PM, Evan Prodromou wrote:
>> I think it's sufficient to define one or more link relations for Social
>> API endpoints.
>>
>>      outbox
>>      inbox
>>      following
>>      groups
>>      lists
>>
>> That way different discovery mechanisms for different kinds of URI
>> identifiers (http, Webfinger, etc.) will work fine.
> -1
>
> 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.
>
> Then stating the actual relations (links/predicates) in JSON-LD document
> representing particular resource.
>

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