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Protocol Specifications
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Change Request CR-001: ProfileRelocation #4

Closed skopf closed 2 years ago

skopf commented 2 years ago

Profile Relocation

It has always been an early goal of this protocol to avoid user lock-in on specific applications or providers. The protocol intentionally gives the profile key precedence over the URI (see 1.3) to bind a profile to the cryptographic key rather than the URI. This degrades the profile provider to a mere publishing service which can be swapped for a different provider.

However, the current version 0.3 of SPXP does not provide a guided migration process or give enough hints for implementors how to discover the new profile URI of a relocated profile.

The original Change Request CR-001_ProfileRelocation can be found here.