[OpenID] SREG 1.x attributes

[Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)]

On 11/30/2008 12:39 AM, 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.
>    

Yes, I mentioned that AX is supposed to take care of this.

> 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?)
>    

But one might ask, why SREG has become popular (if we can speak about 
popularity in terms of OpenID ;-) ), whereas AX isn't widely implemented 
as far as I can tell. Maybe it's because of the pre-defined fields or 
because of its simplicity, I don't know. But something tells me that 
SREG has been successful, why not extend it in some form.


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