Proposal for Modularizing Auth 2.0 Discovery

[Mark Baker]

Hi Gabe,

On 2/28/07, Gabe Wachob <gabe.wachob at amsoft.net> wrote:
> Basically, the Discovery Spec would specify that for any identifier scheme
> to work with OpenID, it MUST define a way of being constructed into an HTTP
> URI and then returning a XRDS with an HTTP GET on that HTTP URI.

I don't understand that.  Why shouldn't, say, an ftp URI be usable as
an ftp URI instead of converted to an http URI?

My bigger concern though, is that such a mapping would be a case of
URI space squatting.

http://esw.w3.org/topic/UriSpaceSquatting

Mark.
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