[uf-discuss] Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate an authoritative hCard

[Ara Pehlivanian]

On 2/1/07, John Allsopp <john at westciv.com> wrote:
> use case - sure - for example, at our conference sites, we markup
> speakers with hCard, and this often includes a link to their blog
> etc. In this case, a link to an authoritative (or perhaps, to be even
> less strict "detailed") hCard may be somethign that is very useful.

If I understand the spec correctly, since a rel="me" is symmetric,
shouldn't the hCard you're pointing to also be pointing back? If
that's true, then the authoritative hCard will quickly get
unmanageable since it will contain tens if not hundreds of reciprocal
links to partial hCards (imagine if you're listed in several different
locale directories marked up with hCard).

A.