[OpenID] The delegation story in OpenID 2.0
Dmitry Shechtman
damnian at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 23:49:09 UTC 2007
> OpenID2 is intended to be backwards-compatible with 1.1.
If it is in fact backwards-compatible, it shouldn't introduce new tags.
> However, if a RP wishes to use some extra functionality that was
> added in 2.0, it would be useful for it to determine the capability
> of it's peer during discovery. This is the reason for the different
> tags for v1/v2 HTML discovery.
Capabilities should be determined by the XRDS. I believe that was its exact
purpose.
Regards,
Dmitry
=damnian
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