[OpenID board] May 19, 2010 OpenID Board Meeting Minutes

[Dick Hardt]

On 2010-05-31, at 7:05 PM, John Bradley wrote:

> Dick,
> 
> You know that XRI is used by multiple OP.   It is not something a RP site demands.
> 
> In discovery going forward we need to look at how and if XRI identifiers are supported.
> 
> Because LRDD and XRI are so close you can normalize a XRI by adding @xri.net to the end and doing webfinger/LRDD resolution to get a XRD.
> 
> People may be opposed to XRI on philosophical grounds, and want it removed.
> 
> Breaking peoples openID without a good reason should be avoided.
> 
> I prefer to look at it as coming up with a suitable discovery flow and then determining what identifier formats are appropriate.
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> If at the end of the day XRI can't be supported we will discover that.   I would prefer not to make that a precondition.

I'd like to hear from people that have implemented XRI  to say they really need it. 

> 
> There are a number of equally under-utilized features of AX we could look at:)


Agreed. AX was not well utilized. The community had enough issues trying to move an identifier. :)