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

[Ara Pehlivanian]

On 2/7/07, David Janes <davidjanes at blogmatrix.com> wrote:
> On 2/7/07, Ara Pehlivanian <ara.pehlivanian at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/7/07, David Janes <davidjanes at blogmatrix.com> wrote:
> > > I think you're missing a stage:
> > >
> > > - fragment hcard (anywhere on the net by anybody)
> > > - points to home page, using class="url"
> > > - home page, using class="something" rel="something-else", points to
> > > authoritative hcard
> > >
> > > e.g. Ryan King hCards in the wild point to http://www.ryanking.com;
> > > http://www.ryanking.com (somehow) points to
> > > http://www.ryanking.com/contact/ which has his authoritative hCard.
> > >
> > > At most one back reference is required.
> >
> > Is that the intended use though? Just managing the authoritative hCard
> > within a domain?
>
> No, Ryan King could have his authoritative hCard on LinkedIn
> (hypothetical example). He still, however, refers to himself in his
> hCards as url=http://www.ryanking.com (real example).

Okay, but the only references made to the authoritative hCard are by
hCards created by Ryan himself. Nobody else can create an hCard and
use rel="me" (which makes sense).

A.