Re: Webfinger Local (and Domain) Part Syntax

Tantek wrote about the nuances of this recently
https://tantek.com/2023/011/t1/indieweb-evolving-at-mention

On Mon, 23 Jan 2023, 16:18 nightpool, <eg1290@gmail.com> wrote:

> Again, to be clear: RFC 7565 governs how usernames and domains are
> interchanged between federated systems when looking an account up via
> webfinger, but it doesn't govern *authoring* @ mentions in running text
> with the @username@domain microsyntax, which is implementation dependent
> and only used by a subset of implementations. Of specific note is that the
> former has a required scheme (acct:), while the latter is embedded in
> running text and therefore needs to make compromises on completeness. (For
> example, I believe in most common implementations of the @mention
> microsyntax a TLD is required, but I would be surprised if it was required
> in the RFC.)
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 11:09 AM Marcus Rohrmoser <me+swicg@mro.name>
> wrote:
>
>> oh sloppy me,
>>
>> On 23 Jan 2023, at 17:04, Marcus Rohrmoser wrote:
>>
>> > The RFC draft is 9 years old, didn't it become a RFC?
>>
>> RFC 7565
>>
>> /M
>>
>>