The IESG has received a request from the Applications Area Working Group WG (appsawg) to consider the following document: - 'WebFinger' <draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-10.txt> as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2013-03-18. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This specification defines the WebFinger protocol, which can be used to discover information about people or other entities on the Internet using standard HTTP methods. WebFinger discovers information for a URI that might not be usable as a locator otherwise, such as account or email URIs. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
