Yadis

Christopher Baus christopher at baus.net
Wed Sep 6 19:06:58 UTC 2006



> true.. but yadis boils down to (identity-)service discovery.. rds is a
format thats not limited to identity services, but any kind of service
(at least the idea is, right now its only being used for blogging as far
as I know)
>
> It makes perfect sense to me to combine the two..
>

Sorry, I'm ignorant of rds, but if the web site read:

"Identity Service Discovery for Web 2.0"

it might be clearer that yadis is a discovery protocol and not an
authentication protocol.  I'm not an identity or authentication expert and
it was unclear to me that yadis is orthogonal to openid/lid.


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