Re: Thinking about Webfinger

I don't really see any big reasoning or need for this, but I think you could probably define semantics for content negotiation with the application/activity+json media type which made sense (perhaps related to the importing of xrd:Alias into AS2 that was recently discussed on SocialHub)

On Sat, 6 May 2023, at 15:37, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> so 6. 5. 2023 v 15:35 odesílatel Erin Shepherd <erin.shepherd@e43.eu> napsal:
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>> What problem are you trying to fix? Needing to support one additional albeit pretty trivial format?
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> Exactly that, clients and servers support one protocol instead of two.
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>> On Sat, 6 May 2023, at 15:32, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>>> Correction:  should read .well-known/webfinger?user=bob@host
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>>> so 6. 5. 2023 v 15:31 odesílatel Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> napsal:
>>>> Back in 2012 Mark Nottingham suggested a way to lookup JSON data for a given handle:
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>>>> /.well-known/user=bob@host
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>>>> WIth the endpoint returning JSON
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>>>> In retrospect this was a brilliant idea.  What happened with webfinger was a bit different
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>>>> instead of user= or acct= a new URI scheme ws minted acct:
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>>>> This was unnecessary, and there wasnt a good reason for it at the time that i can remember other than to use uris.
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>>>> Also at the time the JSON that came back was JRD, a whole new flavour of JSON modele on XRD.  However, XRD failed to gain popularity, and JRD is a different format to most of the fediverse.
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>>>> Would it be time to simplify webfiger in 3 ways.
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>>>> 1. no longer need the acct: URI scheme
>>>> 2. use the simpler acct=user@host form
>>>> 3. return a JSON serialization that is the same format as AP objects
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>>>> The existing infrastructure would need to be maintained because its used in places such as OIDC, however a newer endpoint could be advertised for newer systems, opting in.  Perhaps even could be proposed to the IETF as Webfinger 2.
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>>>> Is this too big a leap, or worth writing up?