barnabywaltersyeah, the higher specificity makes it useful for discovery and UIs, e.g. you can make a silo-independent “fork this project” web action button using it
barnabywalterswhere a rel=vcs-git link on waterpigs.co.uk could link to a repo on github.com, and someone’s self-hosted git web UI could use it to create a button which forks the git project
barnabywaltersthat’s significantly more specific, and targeted purely at machines rather than human-readable data, would arguably be better implemented as human-visible data