SREG namespace URI rollback

Dick Hardt dick at sxip.com
Wed Apr 4 04:59:36 UTC 2007


I can see an OP thinking that AX is a big step, but have a hard time  
seeing it to be that big for an RP (once there are libraries that  
support AX) ... and it is really not that much more to do AX over  
SREG for an RP.

Where you thinking OP or RP David?

-- Dick

On 3-Apr-07, at 12:17 PM, Recordon, David wrote:

> I see there being a gap between SREG and AX with nothing bridging it.
> IMHO, AX takes too large of a step for people to use it if they just
> want a few more SREG fields.  I think we need something which does
> nothing more than provide a way to extend SREG and that will solve the
> majority of problems today.
>
> --David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: joshhoyt at gmail.com [mailto:joshhoyt at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Josh
> Hoyt
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 7:16 PM
> To: Recordon, David
> Cc: Johnny Bufu; OpenID specs list
> Subject: Re: SREG namespace URI rollback
>
> On 4/2/07, Recordon, David <drecordon at verisign.com> wrote:
>> Sure, though I think there has also been a desire to do a bit of an
>> actual rev to SREG to be more of a 1.1 version in terms of either
>> explicitly supporting additional fields (such as avatar)  or allowing
>> field names to be URIs themselves versus a hard-coded list of
>> properties.
>
> -1
>
> SREG works because it's so dead simple. Attribute exchange is not much
> more complicated, and it lets you specifiy field names with URIs *and*
> allows you to define any attributes you see fit.
>
> Josh
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