- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:51:26 -0700
- To: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Cc: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>, "michel@suignard.com" <michel@suignard.com>, "tony@att.com" <tony@att.com>, "plh@w3.org" <plh@w3.org>, "adil@diwan.com" <adil@diwan.com>, "ted.ietf@gmail.com" <ted.ietf@gmail.com>, "John O'Conner" <jooconne@adobe.com>, "presnick@qualcomm.com" <presnick@qualcomm.com>, "chris@lookout.net" <chris@lookout.net>, "public-ietf-w3c@w3.org" <public-ietf-w3c@w3.org>
On 19/09/2012, at 1:10 AM, Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com> wrote: > On Sep 18, 2012, at 22:39 , Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote: >> If I were trying to solve this problem, I'd be allowing people to register handlers for link *relations*, not schemes; has that come up at all? After all, OpenID is already coordinated through relations… > > Maybe I'm missing something, but this is intended to be system-wide. How do you convey a link relation in email for instance? Or over Twitter? Understood, but what's the use case? I'm not saying that registerProtocolHandler isn't necessary; if somebody wants to send a telnet: link in Twitter and have their favourite Web telnet client open, that's cool. What I am saying is that using the URI scheme to indicate *any* new protocol -- when by "protocol" you mean a coordination of HTTP, like OAuth or OpenID -- isn't what URI schemes are really for, and I have concerns about where this kind of design will take us (when anybody coming up with a new kind of "web service" decides to mint a URI scheme to identify it). That sort of thing *is* much more natural to express as a link relation; has anyone proposed registerRelationHandler()? As to expressing *that* sort of thing in a bare (i.e., context-free) link -- is there really a use case? I.e., how useful is it to express a bare OpenID endpoint in a twitter link, vs. a link to a Web page that then provides an entry point to an OpenID interaction? Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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