Attribute Exchange pre-draft 5

[Josh Hoyt]

On 3/26/07, Johnny Bufu <johnny at sxip.com> wrote:
> - Added ax.mode parameters to all messages, to unambiguously identify
> the message types; the values are:
>         fetch_request
>         fetch_response
>         store_request
>         store_response_success
>         store_response_failure
> This allows implementers to decouple the processing of the underlying
> OpenID Auth message and the extension layer.

What about using a different namespace URI for each message?

I was thinking:
  http://openid.net/srv/ax/1.0#fetch_request
  http://openid.net/srv/ax/1.0#fetch_response
  http://openid.net/srv/ax/1.0#store_request
  ...

That eliminates the need for an extra parameter, but makes the auth
message processing unambiguous. It's also clear to human readers that
those namespaces are related, since they are in the same document.

Josh