{"draft":"draft-ietf-appsawg-webfinger-18","doc_id":"RFC7033","title":"WebFinger","authors":["P. Jones","G. Salgueiro","M. Jones","J. Smarr"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"28","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Applications Area Working Group APP","abstract":"This specification defines the WebFinger protocol, which can be used\r\nto discover information about people or other entities on the\r\nInternet using standard HTTP methods.  WebFinger discovers\r\ninformation for a URI that might not be usable as a locator\r\notherwise, such as account or email URIs.","pub_date":"September 2013","keywords":["WebFinger","JRD","JSON Resource Descriptor","service discovery","service discovery protocol","information discovery","information discovery protocol"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC7033","errata_url":null}