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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Bob, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>From the report you show, the Yadis
diagnostic is doing the correct resolution call to the xri.net HXRI proxy
resolver. So it&#8217;s sites that have the pre-Yadis RP libraries that won&#8217;t
yet work with HXRIs (or with any other Yadis-enable URL for that matter). Those
libraries are only looking for the HTML link elements (I think).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>And I completely agree that an XRI in any
format &#8211; &#8220;raw&#8221; i-name, with an xri:// scheme prefix, or with
an HXRIs proxy resolver prefix like <a href="http://xri.net/">http://xri.net</a>
&#8211; all need to be interchangeable. You&#8217;re right that this will
require a slight fix at the i-brokers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>=Drummond <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
bobwyman@gmail.com [mailto:bobwyman@gmail.com] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Bob Wyman<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 03, 2007
11:38 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Drummond Reed<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Recordon, David;
openid-general; specs@openid.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [OpenID] Dumb
Question: Why isn't http://xri.net/=bobwyman an OpenID?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Drummond,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Thanks for the detailed response. BTW: Below, you'll see what is
happening when I use the Yadis diagnostic on the HXRI. I believe that users
will, in fact, expect XRI's, i-names, and HXRI's to be interchangeable. I'm
using <a href="http://2idi.com">2idi.com</a>, so I guess I have to wait for
them to put in the fix?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Also, I find it a bit odd that the Yadis diagnostic reports a
&quot;pass&quot; for OpenID... Apparently, the&nbsp;metric for
&quot;passing&quot; is pretty forgiving.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>bob wyman<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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12.0pt'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><a
href="http://www.openidenabled.com/resources/yadis-test/yadis-detect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fxri.net%2F%3Dbobwyman&amp;negotiation=on">http://www.openidenabled.com/resources/yadis-test/yadis-detect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fxri.net%2F%3Dbobwyman&amp;negotiation=on
</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Results for <strong><b><font face="Times New Roman"><a
href="http://xri.net/=bobwyman">http://xri.net/=bobwyman</a></font></b></strong>:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
     mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span class=action><font size=3
     face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I fetched <a
     href="http://xri.net/=bobwyman">http://xri.net/=bobwyman</a>, asking for
     content type application/xrds+xml</span></font></span> <o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
     mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span class=action><font size=3
     face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The document's
     content type is </span></font></span><code><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
     style='font-size:10.0pt'>application/xrds+xml;trust=none</span></font></code><span
     class=action>. That is the XRDS content type.</span> <o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
     mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span class=action><font size=3
     face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>There was no YADIS
     HTTP header.</span></font></span> <o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
     mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span class=action><font size=3
     face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I got a document. It
     is 916 bytes long and begins '&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;
     encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;\n&lt;XRDS ref=&quot;xri://=bobwyman&quot;
     x'</span></font></span> <o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
     mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span class=action><font size=3
     face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I parsed an XRDS
     document.</span></font></span> <o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
     mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span class=action><font size=3
     face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I found a service,
     but it's not a type I recognize. It's a service at <a
     href="http://2idi.com/contact/">http://2idi.com/contact/</a></span></font></span>
     <o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
     mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span class=action><font size=3
     face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I found a service,
     but it's not a type I recognize. It's a
     xri://+i-service*(+contact)*($v*1.0) service at <a
     href="http://2idi.com/contact/">http://2idi.com/contact/</a></span></font></span>
     <o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
     mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span class=action><font size=3
     face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I found a service:
     OpenID at <a href="https://2idi.com/openid/">https://2idi.com/openid/</a>
     with delegate None</span></font></span> <o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
     mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span class=action><font size=3
     face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I found a service:
     OpenID at <a href="http://2idi.com/openid/">http://2idi.com/openid/</a>
     with delegate None</span></font></span> <o:p></o:p></li>
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 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
     mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><strong><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
     style='font-size:13.5pt'>XRDS:</span></font></b></strong><span
     class=checkxrds> </span><strong><b><font color="#008800"
     face="Times New Roman"><span style='color:#008800'>Passed</span></font></b></strong><span
     class=checkxrds> </span><span class=note>Your YADIS URL leads to an XRDS
     document. Your YADIS URL is <a href="http://xri.net/=bobwyman">http://xri.net/=bobwyman</a></span><span
     class=checkxrds> </span><o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
     mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><strong><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
     style='font-size:13.5pt'>OpenID:</span></font></b></strong><span
     class=checkopenid> </span><strong><b><font color="#008800"
     face="Times New Roman"><span style='color:#008800'>Passed</span></font></b></strong><span
     class=checkopenid> </span><span class=note>Your YADIS URL leads to at
     least one OpenID service. </span><o:p></o:p></li>
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