New Charter for AX 1.1

Santosh Rajan santrajan at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 15:13:29 UTC 2009


Sorry, please read Openid V.next in my previous post instead of OpenID 2.0.

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Santosh Rajan <santrajan at gmail.com> wrote:

> My apologies, If i am going to ask what may be two dumb questions. I
> haven't been following the AX/Sreg discussions.
> 1) Why are we having both AX 1.1 and 2.0 discussions. We might as well
> straight go for 2.0 if 1.1 is not yet out? Maybe I must have missed the fact
> that 1.1 release is imminent?
> 2) If OpenID 2.0 is going to use resource descriptors for discovery, can we
> not use the same resource descriptor format for AX request and response?
> After all, attributes are also resources, and we can can have a consistent
> resource format across 2.0?
> Thanks,
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:19 PM, John Bradley <john.bradley at wingaa.com>wrote:
>
>> Nat,
>>
>> I understand why people want a fetch parameter.  I would like it, or
>> something like it as well.
>>
>> However I think that is AX 2.0 work.
>>
>> Anything that requires code changes at the RP will slow adoption.
>>
>> I think we should limit AX 1.1 to practical things we can accomplish
>> through config changes at the RP.
>>
>> Yes OP's will need some changes.
>>
>> My argument is adoption if code changes are required RP's will tend to
>> wait for AX 2.0.
>>
>> There is also the slippery slope argument.   Why make a code change that
>> for fetch as opposed to something else.
>>
>> I also have a suspicion that to do fetch properly at the RP it will
>> require rethinking a bunch of things to use it.
>>
>> I think we should add 1 Privacy Policy and 1 TOS in the RP's XRDS,  and
>> define the SREG compatible AX attributes (short if possible).
>>
>> I think fetch and the RP sending more specific Privacy policy are AX 2.0
>> features.
>>
>> I am uncharacteristically making an argument for practicality.
>> Fix what we can quickly, and have it implemented by those that want it in
>> weeks not years.
>>
>> John B.
>>
>> On 2009-11-19, at 1:21 AM, Nat Sakimura wrote:
>>
>>  Hi.
>>
>> To separate out the 2.0 and 1.1 discussion, I have created a new separate
>> charter for AX 1.1
>>
>> https://openid.pbworks.com/OpenID_Attribute_Exchange_Extention_1_1
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> =nat
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