The Wiki, iNames and OpenID accounts

[Martin Atkins]

Drummond Reed wrote:
> Good point, Les. It's a tradeoff between:
> 
> * Enabling forwarding XRIs to be used as OpenID login identifiers but having
> RP client libraries need to make a different resolution call depending on
> whether the XRI contains a path or not, and...
> 
> * Ignoring local paths on XRIs used as OpenID login identifiers (which means
> not supporting forwarding XRIs) but having one standard XRI resolution call.
> 
> Do folks on the list have any strong leanings?
> 

I don't like the idea that RPs have to understand XRI. The resolver 
library is supposed to be doing all the work for them. I must admit to 
not quite understanding the issue yet, but is there not some way that 
this funny case can be handled in the XRI resolver library?