Re: Last Call: draft-nottingham-site-meta (Defining Well-Known URIs) to Proposed Standard

[Barry Leiba <barryleiba.mailing.lists at gmail.com>]

> If anything, I am working on a proposal that will provide a generically
> useful document for more protocols under /.well-known. I just don't
> think there is compelling reason to use the directory itself as the way
> to get the list of documents (considering the deployment challenges).

Oh, it certainly doesn't have to use the directory itself.  The point
was to "query" the directory; that could be done by asking for, say,
"index.xml", or whatever.  What I like about Lorrie's idea is having a
mechanism to do the query.  I don't care what the mechanism is.

Barry