Request for consideration of AX 2.0 Working Group Charter Proposal

Breno de Medeiros breno at google.com
Wed Jan 28 02:47:19 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Breno de Medeiros <breno at google.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Allen Tom <atom at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>> I agree with Martin. I believe that AX is the correct solution in the long
>> run, but given that there appears to be more SREG implementations currently
>> in the wild, we should update it to make it useful for sites that want to
>> use it.
>>
>> The other factor is that our lawyers feel very strongly that the user should
>> have the opportunity to read the RP's privacy policy before authorizing any
>> data exchange, and only SREG has the ability to do this automatically. The
>> alternative would be to use OAuth, and require RPs to pre-register with
>> Yahoo and provide their privacy policy and/or agree to a ToS before using
>> our OP.
>
> I think the AX proposing the WG is in agreement that AX 2.0 should support this.

s/AX/folks/

>
>>
>> Allen
>>
>> Martin Atkins wrote:
>>>
>>> I agree that having both is not ideal, but I also feel strongly that we
>>> need to have a good SREG 1.1 spec because in practice today there are lots
>>> of SREG implementations and it is important to be able to interoperate with
>>> them even if in the long term we'd like to move to AX.
>>>
>>> This is, incidentally, why I was previously proposing forming an SREG
>>> group whose task is *only* to fix the spec to reflect current practice. This
>>> should encourage SREG interop in the short term while new developments to AX
>>> will encourage a move to AX in the longer term.
>>>
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