[OpenID] HTML-Based Discovery incompatibilities

[Evert | Rooftop]

On 8-Jan-09, at 1:35 PM, Chris Messina wrote:

> I will fight tooth and nail to keep basic <link>-based OpenID  
> discovery in the spec. I had a hard enough time delegating my own  
> OpenID yesterday. You'd think that I'm not your average user and  
> could figure this out -- and if *I* had a hard time with it, I can't  
> imagine how normal folks who give a crap about our beautiful fucking  
> snowflake technologies will figure it out.
>
>

As an open-id user, I have to concur. KISS!

Back in the 1.0 days I was able to implement a consumer and provider  
fairly easily.. Now the number of abbreviations, standards and  
concepts are downright scary.

I'm not if this will be of any help to you guys being a mere  
implementer, but this is a sentiment I've heard from other  
developers.. I love the idea behind OpenID, but reading this list for  
2 years makes me think it's heading the same direction as WS-*. Please  
keep things simple!

Evert

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