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Putting all of these files at root is going to be like have old rusty cars and stained mattresses in front of your house years from now.

The web is not a junkyard.



The proposal is to place the file at /.well-known/security.txt.

And even if it wasn't, there is plenty of namespace room to put every file someone argues for in a 2-page RFC at root. After all, there are only 1024 low-numbered TCP ports and we haven't run out of those yet.


Don’t get me wrong; I dig file-based interfaces, but each time they add another file, it’s another request.

And it’s Anglocentric to continue to unnecessarily put multiple English words into the path; those can’t be touched-up with a later RFC to support Japanese in the file content via a Lang attribute.

The whole thing is shit bad, I’m sorry. Just come up with something that makes fucking sense for once.




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