[OpenID board] stable references to OpenID 2.0

[Nat Sakimura]

Hi Eliot,

Sorry to have taken time.

As the chair of the OpenID Foundation, I can assure you that,

1.  That the OpenID 2.0 specification located at [1] is *not* going to
change;
  -- It is a final specification, and we are not allowed to touch it.
     If we are going to ever touch it, it will be in a form of errata, or
new version.
  -- As to the URL, I would however prefer http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0
    as specified in the specification itself. It will redirect to the
    HTML representation, which is [1].
2. The Simple  Registration Extension 1.0 specification located at [2] is *
not* going to change;
  -- Same as the above. http://openid.net/sreg/1.0 is probably better as
URL.
3. All future versions of these specifications will *not* reuse these very
same URIs.
  -- No we are not going to reuse them. As a SDO, it is vitally important
to keep track of these.

Best,

Nat Sakimura
Chairman, The OpenID Foundation

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Eliot Lear <lear at cisco.com> wrote:

>  Hi Nat,
>
> It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance both in person and virtually ;-)
>
> I wonder if you would feel comfortable replying to this email on behalf of
> the OpenID Foundation to say:
>
> 1.  That the OpenID 2.0 specification located at [1] is *not* going to
> change;
> 2.  The Simple  Registration Extension 1.0 specification located at [2] is
> *not* going to change;
> 2.  All future versions of these specifications will *not* reuse these
> very same URIs.
>
> This may resolve the matter of stable references.
>
> Thanks so much in advance,
>
> Eliot
>
> [1] http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0.html
> [2] http://openid.net/specs/openid-simple-registration-extension-1_0.html
>
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