RE: [xri] XRD: Separating resource descriptions from authority

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Eran Hammer-Lahav <>
Date
2009-01-27T03:52:02+00:00
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RE: [xri] XRD: Separating resource descriptions from authority
> > The CanonicalID seems to be used exclusively for trust, which makes me
> > wonder if we shouldn't add a separate trust element that is about the XRD
> > and not about the resource. One such idea looks like this:
>
> To be honest, I'm not quite sure what the difference of <About> and
> <CanonicalID> is, but then I've only thought about this in the context
> of OpenID discovery. If you give us <About>, I don't think we need
> <CanonicalID>, at least not for OpenID discovery :-)

You can have a single <CanonicalID> but many <About>s.

EHL