On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Jay Rossiter <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/28/2009 2:27 PM, Alexis Richardson wrote: >> +1 >> >> This will certainly be an issue for cases like fat (arbitrary) >> content. But please let's not worry about it now. Any gaps are >> neatly filled by the hubs offering some sort of SLA. >> >> alexis > > I don't think that fills any gaps, really. The publisher does not > necessarily choose the hub, if federation is in use. The publisher > doesn't get to agree to a hub's published standards. They only agree to > what their original hub does.
I agree that federation will be an important case. Publishers should not publish to hubs that they don't trust. Now, 'trust' could represent any business commitment, not just 'authentication'. It is not the job of the spec to capture all possible trust relationships. IMHO... alexis
