The Wiki, iNames and OpenID accounts

Tue Oct 31 14:57:59 UTC 2006

>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.

Identifiers are to identify.  Having an XRI identify one thing with 
XRI resolution and something else with OpenID feels like a bad idea to me.

Cordially, Joaquin

Question: What is 'supporting' used to mean here?

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