RE: Webfinger & FedSocWeb notes from IIW

Markus, thanks for sharing.  I copied Evan since there were some points on
the page that I thought were worth discussing.

 

"Webfinger has JSON now, but didn't have it when SWD was invented."

 

That's not quite right.  JSON has been a part of WebFinger since RFC 6415.
The only issue was that JSON was not mandatory on servers.  That said,
anyone wishing to allow use of OpenID Connect on their domain could have
implemented JSON support if the spec demanded it.  It's not an issue now,
anyway, since JSON is now mandatory with WebFinger.

 

"It's possible to retrieve either host-meta.json or host-meta with "json"
Accept header. --> confusing?"

 

This should not be confusing and if it is, we need to clarify it in the
spec.  XRD is optional and JRD is mandatory.  If a server implements both
(as mine does), the default format returned by host-meta will be XRD and
host-meta.json is JRD.  If a server only supports JSON, it will likely
return JRD in response regardless.  Usually, that's how web services behave
with the Accept header.

 

"Questions about the case when multiple links/locations are discovered"

 

We might have to defer to others on this one, but my understanding is that
the order of links is the approach.  RFC 6415 is clear about ensuring that
order is always maintained.  Thus, in my implementation, I have an integer
value in the database and all data is sorted per that integer value.
Essentially, it is my "priority" value, but it does not appear in the
protocol.

 

Paul

 

From: webfinger@googlegroups.com [mailto:webfinger@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Markus Sabadello
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 7:55 AM
To: webfinger@googlegroups.com; public-fedsocweb@w3.org
Subject: Webfinger & FedSocWeb notes from IIW

 

Here are some very basic notes from two session Evan ran at the recent
Internet Identity Workshop <http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/> : 

http://iiw.idcommons.net/Webfinger

http://iiw.idcommons.net/FED._SOC._WEB_SUM.

 

Would anyone have notes or materials or a summary of what happened at the
Federated Social Web Summit
<http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Federated_Social_W
eb_Summit_2012> ?

 

Markus