[OpenID] W3C TAG recommends against XRI

[Dick Hardt]

Drummond, would be interested to hear your comments on this topic.

-- Dick

On 22-May-08, at 2:07 PM, Andy Powell wrote:

> 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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