[OpenID] SREG 1.x attributes

[Martin Atkins]

Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote:
> 
> Which is probably because AX was supposed to take care of it. However 
> SREG is widely implemented and I agree that we should make it possible 
> to easily extend SREG.
> 

If you make it possible to extend SREG, what you end up with is AX with 
a few predefined attributes baked into the spec and no ability for those 
attribute to be updated by third-parties.

I'm not sure anyone actually uses the ability for the attributes to be 
updated by third-parties, so for all intents and purposes you'd just be 
reinventing AX as far as I can tell.

What do you see as the value of having two parallel specs that both have 
the same functionality apart from one having a feature that no-one uses? 
(or are you proposing that SREG would replace AX altogether?)