url -> name

Brad Fitzpatrick brad at danga.com
Mon May 23 13:25:50 PDT 2005


On Mon, 23 May 2005, Ben Hyde wrote:

> I'd move any discussion of what kind of clever things might be done with
> the info on the user's page to a non-normative appendix.  Like you say
> ...

Spec updated to be more clear.

> > maybe it returns/parses a FOAF
> > or hCARD or XFN... whatever.
>
> It gets kind of rich on heuristics at that point.
>
> > Once you know a user does indeed own a URL
> > tree, you can trust any document underneith it,
>
> for some definition of trust :-)

The same level of trust that you're trusting the top-level at least.


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