Yadis

[Evert | Rooftop]

RDS is the abbreviation for really simple discovery.. I kind of like 
YADIS better because it makes use of urls for servicenames, but the fact 
is that RDS is already widely adopted by virtually any blog out there.. 
Its being used to discover endpoints for blogging apis such as 
MetaweblogAPI, BloggerAPI and the MovableType API..

Although Yadis is better by design, because the RDS system is already 
widely adopted (literally millions of blogs out there have a RDS 
endpoint somewhere) it kind of makes me sad there is Yet Another ;) 
standard out there.. Since OpenID 2.0 isn't finished, is there a chance 
RDS support can be adopted at least in the discovery part of things?

Just having one standard for one thing is a good thing I feel.. maybe 
YADIS and RDS can even be combined in one format, but haven't really 
looked into that option..

Evert

Gabe Wachob wrote:
> Evert-
>
> I'm not familiar with RDS, but Yadis (for HTTP identifiers) is mostly just a
> HTTP GET which gets back a descriptor document pointing to service
> endpoints.
>
> I'm not sure how much simpler it can get. What seems complicated to you --
> maybe its something in the description we can fix. 
>
> 	-Gabe
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
>> Behalf Of Evert | Rooftop
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 3:00 PM
>> To: christopher at baus.net
>> Cc: general at openid.net
>> Subject: Re: Yadis
>>
>> Is YADIS therefore directly competing RDS (really simple discovery)?
>>
>> What are the benefits of each and why did you not go for RDS instead?
>> It's xml, so its extendable..
>>
>> Evert
>>
>> Christopher Baus wrote:
>>     
>>>> Thus, the aim of Yadis is to provide a standard way to ask questions
>>>> like "Does this URL support <service X>?" or "What services does this
>>>> URL support?"
>>>>
>>>> The aim of OpenID is to authenticate as a URL-based identity.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Thanks. That makes sense.
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