[OpenID] SREG 1.x attributes

[Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)]

On 11/30/2008 11:29 PM, David Recordon:
> I think it's far more of a timing thing.  SREG has been supported by 
> the majority of smaller OpenID Providers and thus some Relying 
> Parties.  The large Providers (AOL and Yahoo!) didn't provide support 
> for either spec.  Google now supports AX and MySpace is planning to as 
> well.  AX will overtime become prevalent as more OPs provide data via it.

But if the RP's don't know really what to do with that data how shall it 
be become more prevalent? AX makes sense for me in a  corporate, 
centralized world, not the open net. Or am I mistaken here?

>
> This is why I believe that we should fix SREG to work with 2.0 though 
> focus effort on adoption of AX.
>

The question might be, *how*? If not, what else?

> On Nov 30, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Peter Williams wrote:
>
>> I suspect ax is not too popular as it competes with ldap/ldif - and 
>> has no real reason to exist. The pain of making yet another attribute 
>> schema (for what?) is high.

Your argument makes sense to me.


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