[OpenID] [openid4java] Re: use of net.openid vs com.sxip for Java libraries

Dick Hardt dick at sxip.com
Thu Apr 5 15:18:43 UTC 2007


Thanks for being a man of action Justen!

-- Dick

On 5-Apr-07, at 5:20 AM, Justen Stepka wrote:

> I went ahead and purchased openid4java.org with regards to our  
> Maven repository name spacing concerns. In the past when domains  
> have been talked about on the web I have found randoms seems to buy  
> them.
>
> Should we decide to go down this route in the future, this is now  
> an option for us.
>
> This weekend in Australia is a long holiday, however I will get a  
> DNS server configured and setup that will redirect to the  
> OpenID4Java Google Code site.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Justen
>
> -- 
> Justen Stepka
> http://www.jstepka.name/blog/
>
> On 4/5/07, Recordon, David < drecordon at verisign.com> wrote:
> +1, I feel it should either use org.sxip, com.sxip , or the  
> proposal of
> org.openid4java.
>
> OpenID.net should not be specifically endorsing any specific
> implementation, just as the foundation will not be creating libraries
> itself.  There must be a seperation between the OpenID protocol and
> implementations of it.  Otherwise who is to say what is the official
> Java OpenID implementation?
>
> --David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general- 
> bounces at openid.net] On
> Behalf Of Johannes Ernst
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 5:03 PM
> To: openid-general
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] use of net.openid vs com.sxip for Java libraries
>
> Just because I implement an HTTP server doesn't mean I get to put  
> things
> into the org.w3c namespace, does it?
>
> What's wrong with using the project name? [I also thought that
> openid.net was not in the business of constructing, or endorsing
> software implementations.]
>
> On Apr 3, 2007, at 16:36, Josh Hoyt wrote:
>
> > On 4/3/07, David Fuelling < sappenin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> +1 to using net.openid (in some form or fashion) in the package
> >> name.  As
> >> you say, it conveys that this is a community project that everyone
> >> can participate in and use.  Maybe to prevent collisions, the
> >> openid4java code should sit in 'net.openid.sxip' or
> >> 'net.openid.openid4java'
> >> package...?
> >
> > There is at least one more Java OpenID 2 implementation (not to
> > mention OpenID 1 implementations), so I think a little more
> > namespacing than just net.openid (such as the net.openid.openid4java
> > that you suggested) is appropriate. In general, it's probably a good
> > idea for the OpenID foundation to have a policy about managing its
> > namespaces, but I think the people who are working on the foundation
> > are currently in the process of frying larger fishes.
> >
> > Josh
>
>
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