My point is that if you draw a graph of the resource and all its links from the various sources and XRDs, it looks like you should flatten the content of XRDs, not search them in order...
EHL
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will Norris [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 11:25 PM
> To: XRI TC
> Subject: Re: [xri] Delegation Terminology / Linked XRD
>
>
> On Jul 3, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:
>
> >> Well there is a precedence. Even though a XRD-linked XRD shares the
> >> semantics as one linked from an HTTP header, we can't ignore the
> fact
> >> that <Link> elements do in fact have a priority. I remember that
> >> LRDD
> >> specifically stated that determining which one of multiple
> >> describedby
> >> links should be used was application specific. And that seems to
> >> make
> >> sense because there is no good deterministic way to order them. We
> >> can order <Link> elements though, so it makes sense to respect their
> >> order.
> >
> > I agree that Link priority must take precedence but that's the easy
> > case. What happens when all priorities are equal.
>
>
> If a linked XRD is really just another linked resource, then the spec
> instructs consuming applications to choose randomly.
>
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