[OpenID] Branding extensions

[Dick Hardt]

Would you elaborate on that Chris? ... hCard looks more like  
something for moving a user's attributes as opposed to a sites  
information unless I am missing something.

-- Dick

On 31-Jan-07, at 11:01 PM, Chris Messina wrote:

> Why not just use hcard with the standard fixins? The more html we pass
> around, the better, IMHO.
>
> Chris
>
> On 1/31/07, Dick Hardt <dick at sxip.com> wrote:
>> Hi Rowan
>>
>> I think it is really useful functionality. We had functionality like
>> this in SXIP 1.0 and SXIP 2.0, and brought up some of these issues
>> back in September, and the decision was that this kind of
>> functionality makes sense as an extension.
>>
>> I have left this extension specification sitting on the back burner
>> waiting for OpenID Authentication and OpenID Attribute Exchange to
>> get completed.
>>
>> Perhaps call it OpenID Relying Party Identity, or RPID for short. :-)
>>
>> -- Dick
>>
>> On 31-Jan-07, at 2:14 PM, Rowan Kerr wrote:
>>
>> > Something that would be very useful for my situation would be to
>> > have an extension to OpenID that allows RPs to suggest data
>> > to an OP that could be used for branding any pages the
>> > user might see when responding to an Authentication request.
>> >
>> > The following would be nice to have:
>> > - site name
>> > - logo url
>> > - homepage url
>> > - site and/or request description
>> >
>> > Currently, we just expose site logos at a standardized url,
>> > but being able to have it as part of the request would be
>> > much preferred.
>> >
>> > Is that crazy, or can anyone else see a good side to this?
>> >
>> > -Rowan
>> >
>> > --
>> > Rowan Kerr
>> > Senior Web Programmer, Standard Interactive
>> > tel:+14169344451
>> > xmpp:rowan at standardinteractive.com
>> > http://standardinteractive.com/
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