- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:40:15 +1100
- To: Breno de Medeiros <breno@google.com>
- Cc: Dirk Balfanz <balfanz@google.com>, www-talk@w3.org
On 03/12/2008, at 1:35 PM, Breno de Medeiros wrote: > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote: >> >> >> On 02/12/2008, at 1:25 PM, Dirk Balfanz wrote: >>> >>> Well, here is the scenario: I buy foobar.com for $3/year at >>> cheapdomains.com. I pay an extra dollar to have "email", which >>> means I tell >>> them where I want my email forwarded. I pick dirk@foobar.com to be >>> forwarded >>> to dirk@gmail.com. I pay another extra dollar per year for "web >>> hosting", >>> which means I get a web interface on cheapdomains.com to create >>> some web >>> pages, which get served on www.foobar.com. I set up a couple of >>> pages there >>> with pictures of my cats or whatever and I am done. >>> >>> I now also want to use my email address dirk@foobar.com as my OpenID >>> identifier [1] because I heard that that will end my having to >>> create >>> ever-more accounts on the web. I am told that in order to get that >>> to work I >>> need to host a page called "site-meta" on my site with some weird- >>> looking >>> text in it that I don't understand. But, hey, I know how to get >>> that served >>> off www.foobar.com so that's cool. >>> >>> I have never heard of DNS. >>> >>> Is that a use case we want to support? >>> >>> Dirk. >>> >>> [1] Let's assume that OpenID 3.0 and XRD 2.0 allow that and define >>> some >>> way to discover OpenID endpoints from email addresses. >> >> /site-meta on http://foobar.com/ doesn't (and can't, on its own) >> make any >> authoritative assertions about mailto:dirk@foobar.com; even though >> the >> authority is the same, the URI scheme is different. > > The email address is a distraction here. The core issue is > independent of that. > > vanity-example.com (hosted only at www.vanity-example.com) is a small > site and wants to enable all their user URLs > www.vanity-example.com/bob, www.vanity-example.com/alice to be useful > as discovery endpoints for user services. Thankfully some other site, > more professionally managed, is willing to provide discovery services, > aggregation, etc., on behalf of the users of these vanity domains. You just lost me. Why is it important to have site metadata for a site that doesn't exist, if the e-mail issue is a distraction? -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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