[OpenID] XRI TC - An Outsiders perspective

[Santosh Rajan]

Hey, this makes sense. Now I realize why it is complicated.
Come to think of it why is XRI TC even concerned with OpenID delegation. As
far as they are concerned this should be an application specific problem.
And by definition XRD is extensible. Really they should stick to the
framework and leave it to the OpenID folks to extend it to tackle delegation
and trust. 
So what we need from them is a basic framework which is more or less covered
by the original work done at hueniverse + site-meta + signature(only for
transport security in case of non availability of ssl).


Peter Williams wrote:
> 
> 
> Anything produced by OASIS will tend to be complicated in its spec: its
> why it exists .. to do engineered solutions.
> 
> OASIS methods contrast with W3C design approaches -- which use science
> rather than engineering methods. The nature of science is that it
> inherently leaves lots of open questions, allowing the space needed
> solving crypto-political issues facing non-computers. It thus tends to be
> good for highly-scalable, civilian systems. The nature of engineering is
> that it necessarily must be complete, and thus its long and tedious to
> read. It tends to be good for military/safety systems.
> 
> Id love OpenID to continue being what it is: itself - neither W3C nor
> OASIS dominated. So far, David and co have done a good job on that - which
> speaks to their political savvy. There is no point being in the middle of
> a W3C/OASIS (science vs engineering) culture war. Neither W3C nor OASIS
> are particularly user-centric design cultures (despite all their marketing
> to the contrary). Openid set out to be user centric, and  found synergy
> with the best UCI bits of OASIS (XRI/XRD) with the best UCI bits of W3C
> (URLs). Despite the many pressures of crypto/corporate/standards politics,
> its retained its own identity.
> 
> 


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