Modularizing Auth 2.0 Discovery

[Dmitry Shechtman]

> My proposal is that we make the core Auth 2.0 spec scheme-agnostic. It
> would just state that an identifier is "a URI".

+1


> Then we'd publish in parallel the following two ancillary specifications:
>     * OpenID Discovery for HTTP and HTTPS URIs
>     * OpenID Discovery for XRI URIs.

The latter being "prepend http://xri.net/ to the XRI and use OpenID
Discovery for HTTP".


> Later, the OpenID community or a third party could publish a
> specification "OpenID Discovery for Email Addresses", but I don't think
> we're really ready to go there right now.

Could you please elaborate on this? I believe the SMTP Extension is pretty
solid. The only thing it lacks is formality.


Regards,
Dmitry
=damnian