[tech] A '.well-known/' path for contact information?

[Jon]

On 07/01/21 11:03, C?me Chilliet wrote:
> There is an email field in the certificate for this, I don?t know
> about other authors, but I put my email in the email field of
> certificates for my capsules. This does not work for multi-user
> domains, but as the rest of the thread shows, the *.txt solution does
> not easily support them either.

That's something I hadn't considered. Can you change the email address
without invalidating your TOFU cert? If not, then changing contact
details will be difficult.

> I also wanted to note that authors expecting comments by email using a
> specific subject syntax can just use a mailto link at the end of the
> article, and I?ve seen several gemlogs already doing this. Example:
> gemini://ybad.name/log/2021-01-02.gmi (this one even use a mailing
> list for commenting it seems)

That is something else I hadn't considered. But without formal way to
reliably scrape the contact details from a page, things aren't any
better than present. But that formality is certainly another approach
that could be taken. I remember a discussion how to know how the content
is licensed. One idea was a way to set key/value pairs that contains
this information. I'll try to dig up the thread. A solution for both
problems would be helpful.

Thank you for your ideas.

-- 
Jon