[OpenID] Yahoo issue

[Johnny Bufu]

On 6-Feb-08, at 10:51 AM, Allen Tom wrote:
> My understanding of Section 7.3 of the OpenID 2.0 spec is that  
> Yadis discovery must be supported, and that RPs must implement  
> Yadis discovery before defaulting to HTML discovery.

Correct: mandatory for RPs, optional for OPs.

> Shane B Weeden wrote:
>> That is probably just a sign that the site doesn't support XRDS  
>> discovery, and after all this is an optional part of the RP spec.  
>> Plenty of RP implementations don't, particularly 1.1 RP's.

1.x RPs not supporting Yadis discovery are okay, since Yadis is not  
specified in 1.x.

2.0 RPs not supporting Yadis are not compliant.


Johnny