[OpenID] is openid 2.0 a lightweight identity system?

Gabe Wachob gabe.wachob at amsoft.net
Fri Feb 9 23:57:23 UTC 2007



> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
> Behalf Of Martin Atkins
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 12:12 AM
> To: general at openid.net
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] is openid 2.0 a lightweight identity system?
> 
> XRDS was in play before i-names became part of the spec. It was adopted
> (in Yadis) to unify the discovery of services as a first step towards
> bringing everything together.

Just to be clear - XRDS comes from the XRI Resolution spec. 

YADIS came about based on use the XRI resolution result format (XRDS). That
what those references to "those XRI guys" were about. 

	-Gabe




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