http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5785.txt
On 23 November 2013 02:10, Andre-John Mas <aj...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi, > > I am not sure whether this is the best place to ask this, but hopefully > someone might be able to provide some feedback: > > The basic idea is to have cloud services provide a simple descriptor file, > that describes the services hosted and what the specific URLs are. The file > could be in JSON or XML and would include such things as: > > - service name > - service logo (possibly different sizes) > - service description > - reference to licence > - list of services (e-mail, storage, calendar, contacts, etc) and their URLs > > This descriptor would generally be found at the root of a domain > (http://mydomain.net, for example)or on a specific server > (http://myserver.somedomain.org). Also, for security reasons it would only > be visible to authenticated users, this also provides the optional benefit > of having a dynamic descriptor which lists only the services available to > the authenticated user. There might be a use case for a simple version of > the file, visible to non-authenticated users, but at this point I have > researched things enough to decide on this. > > Microsoft already provides a descriptor file for exchange based services, so > in certain ways it is about building on that concept, but also making it > more generally available, eventually as an RFC (ideally). The benefit would > be that on your tablet or PC you would indicate the domain name for the > cloud service provider and the rest of the information is discovered, > transparent to the user. > > The next step would to be to create an open client library that leverages > this. > > Anyhow that's the idea. Any thoughts? > > Regards > > Andre
