The CanonicalID Approach

[Josh Hoyt]

On 6/7/07, Recordon, David <drecordon at verisign.com> wrote:
> What I'd like to markup is that my three reassignable identifiers so
> that they all use my LiveJournal userid URL as the persistent
> identifier.  It should be noted that also marking them as synonyms to
> each other follows the same sort of process using the "<Ref/>" tag in my
> various XRDS files.

-1 on requiring a whole extra round of discovery for every sign in. If
you can come up with a way to verify that (a) the identifier in
question points to the canonical ID and (b) the canonical ID has the
appropriate information in it without doing twice the discovery, I'd
like to hear it.

Josh