Uh, what does the index.html have to do with what I was suggesting? On Nov 22, 2013, at 21:19 , Mike Dierken <[email protected]> wrote:
> See also : index.html > > > > > On Nov 22, 2013, at 6:10 PM, Andre-John Mas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am not sure whether this is the best place to ask this, but hopefully >> someone might be able to provide some feedback: >> >> The basic idea is to have cloud services provide a simple descriptor file, >> that describes the services hosted and what the specific URLs are. The file >> could be in JSON or XML and would include such things as: >> >> - service name >> - service logo (possibly different sizes) >> - service description >> - reference to licence >> - list of services (e-mail, storage, calendar, contacts, etc) and their URLs >> >> This descriptor would generally be found at the root of a domain >> (http://mydomain.net, for example)or on a specific server >> (http://myserver.somedomain.org). Also, for security reasons it would only >> be visible to authenticated users, this also provides the optional benefit >> of having a dynamic descriptor which lists only the services available to >> the authenticated user. There might be a use case for a simple version of >> the file, visible to non-authenticated users, but at this point I have >> researched things enough to decide on this. >> >> Microsoft already provides a descriptor file for exchange based services, so >> in certain ways it is about building on that concept, but also making it >> more generally available, eventually as an RFC (ideally). The benefit would >> be that on your tablet or PC you would indicate the domain name for the >> cloud service provider and the rest of the information is discovered, >> transparent to the user. >> >> The next step would to be to create an open client library that leverages >> this. >> >> Anyhow that's the idea. Any thoughts? >> >> Regards >> >> Andre
