Hi Drummond, I'd recommend adding a section which pulls together the HEAD and GET methods and describes how'd they be used in conjunction. Also explicitly pointing out that a URL hosting a XRDS document only is required to implement one or more of the discovery mechanisms whereas a service requesting XRDS documents must implement all of the different methods.
Thanks, --David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Drummond Reed Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 10:45 PM To: 'OpenID specs list' Subject: Review of Yadis section in XRI Resolution 2.0 WD11 As discussed at IIW, the OASIS XRI TC is now moving swiftly to close and vote on the XRI Resolution 2.0 spec (which has been at the Working Draft 10 stage during the entire evolution of OpenID Authentication 2.0) so it can be referenced by OpenID Authentication 2.0 when it goes final. To that end, the first editor's draft of Working Draft 11 has been posted [1]. It's not quite content complete (all major changes have been incorporated; we're now working on the smaller stuff), so we're not asking folks to review the whole thing yet (many OpenID folks think it's too long anyway ;-). However it would be great to get feedback on the new section 8 that incorporates the Yadis protocol. Per discussions with the OpenID editors last fall, the XRI TC is including this in the XRI Resolution spec so everything about XRDS documents and their discovery is referenceable in an open public OASIS spec, even if only URLs and no XRIs are involved. To make this new section easy to review, we've put it on the XRI TC wiki at: http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xri/XriCd02/XrdsDiscoveryFromHttpUris It's pretty short and sweet, mostly because XRDS documents and their context and usage are defined elsewhere in the spec. So this section just defines the URL-based discovery protocol, which is the meat of the Yadis 1.0 spec. The wording has been restructured slightly to fit the OASIS spec format, however the only normative change was to make the recommendation to include the application/xrds+xml Accept header in the HEAD or GET request a SHOULD instead of a MAY. The XRI TC felt this was justified to encourage efficiency -- feel free to push back if you think that's the wrong call. Since only XRI TC members can write to the wiki (due to OASIS IPR rules), please post any feedback here on the specs list and we'll reflect it on the wiki page as quickly as we can (I myself will be offline in meetings tomorrow but back online tomorrow night). Thanks, =Drummond [1] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/24096/xri-resolution-v 2.0- wd-11-ed-01.doc _______________________________________________ specs mailing list specs@openid.net http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs _______________________________________________ specs mailing list specs@openid.net http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs