[OpenID] SREG 1.x attributes

Dick Hardt dick.hardt at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 00:56:41 UTC 2008


On 1-Dec-08, at 4:37 PM, Martin Atkins wrote:

> Peter Williams wrote:
>> Here is a compromise: make it clear that both solicited and  
>> unsolicited responses to an auth can bear a ax etension ...  
>> alongside the sreg).
>>
>> Ax comes across as: ask for auth, get assertion (with sreg), now go  
>> back and ask for ax, get ax response (over association keys).
>>
>
> Is that really what the AX spec describes? That was not my
> interpretation when I read it, but then I may have been reading it  
> with
> SREG-tinted glasses.
>
> If the AX spec really is suggesting that the attributes be exchanged  
> in
> a separate transaction, then we should totally fix that. AX is  
> supposed
> to be a superset of the functionality of SREG.

AX works as you think it works Martin.

Peter's comments are confusing to me.

-- Dick



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