[OpenID] W3C TAG recommends against XRI

[Andy Powell]

In a message to the W3C Technical Architecture Group list yesterday

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2008May/0078.html

Tim Berners-Lee and Stuart Williams, co-chairs of the TAG state
categorically, "We are not satisfied that XRIs provide functionality not
readily available from http: URIs.  Accordingly the TAG recommends
against taking the XRI specifications forward, or supporting the use of
XRIs as identifiers in other specifications".

Is there a view here about whether this has any impact on the current
adoption of XRI in the OpenID 2.0 spec?

Andy
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