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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>"A identifier
used with one or more Yadis Services. A Yadis ID may be a URL; it may be
any other identifier, such as an XRI, that can be resolved to a
URL."</blockquote><br>
I'd put it this way: <br><br>
1. When we wrote "can be resolved to a URL," <br>
a. by "can be resolved," we had in mind the XRI to URL
resolution service contemplated by the XRI specs and similar services and
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b. by "a URL" we had in mind a URL can could be used in an HTTP
request. <br>
My feeling is that the language in the Yadis spec is sloppy. If we
meant can be resolved to a URL with a scheme that works with HTTP, we
should have said so. <br><br>
2. If i'm not mistaken,
'<a href="mailto:robyates70@gmail.com" eudora="autourl">
mailto:robyates70@gmail.com</a>' is a URL. No resolution is
necessary to satisfy the first clause ("may be a
URL").<br><br>
3. All that having been said, if there were a service or specification
which resolved
'<a href="mailto:robyates70@gmail.com" eudora="autourl">
mailto:robyates70@gmail.com</a>' to
'<a href="http://gmail.com/" eudora="autourl">http://gmail.com</a>', then
'<a href="mailto:robyates70@gmail.com" eudora="autourl">
mailto:robyates70@gmail.com</a>' would be a Yadis ID.<br><br>
4. But, and it is a big but, if there were two services or
specifications that resolved
'<a href="mailto:robyates70@gmail.com" eudora="autourl">
mailto:robyates70@gmail.com</a>' to different URLs, then we would be
broken.<br><br>
5. The same is true of XRIs and of any other identifiers that can
be resolved to a URL.<br><br>
My conclusion. We need to change the Yadis spec <br>
I: to say what we meant and<br>
II: to either list or refer to another document that lists those types of
identifier that can be Yadis IDs and for each of those specifies or
refers to the algorithim for resolving each to a URL that can be used in
an HTTP request. <br>
<br>
Cordially, Joaquin<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">As far as I can make out from
the specification it is valid. For example the Yadis spec says that
a yadis id is<br><br>
"A identifier used with one or more Yadis Services. A Yadis ID may
be a URL; it may be any other identifier, such as an XRI, that can be
resolved to a URL."<br><br>
So if there is a rule that states that mailto: URL's resolve to
<a href="http://domain_from_mailto_address/" eudora="autourl">
http://domain_from_mailto_address</a> then mailto's are valid Yadis id's
e.g.
<a href="mailto:robyates70@gmail.com" eudora="autourl">
mailto:robyates70@gmail.com</a> resolves to
<a href="http://gmail.com. /" eudora="autourl">http://gmail.com. </a> Am
I correct with this?<br>
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