Commenting on one thing only (I disagree with some of your other comments but, given Pete's note, I don't see it as being useful to debate them at this point)... --On Saturday, February 28, 2015 01:36 +0000 Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >... > So if the .well-known label > is 'myservice' we would use something like > > _myservice._wks.example.com SRV 0 0 443 host1.example.net > > https://host1.example.net/.well-known/myservice/ > All we are getting from URI is the ability to point the web > service endpoint at any place in the Web site. And, if nothing else, the ability to use URI schemes other than https. I think that is rather important; YMMD. draft-falstrom-uri says "URI", not "web" or "http" or "https" and the difference is significant. john