[OpenID] experimental namespace for openid.net

[Santosh Rajan]

You don't have to get so worked up about this. This is just a thought. If you
can extend XRDS then your new elements will have the same xrds namespace. 




SitG Admin wrote:
> 
>>Just a thought. What if you don't use a namespace at all.
> 
> Uh. I have *no* idea WTF this means, in context of the idea being 
> discussed. Just to make sure we're all on the same page here, I'm 
> going to quote from the first paragraph of Dirk's original post:
> 
> "Google would like to launch a feature in which we're allowing our 
> Google Apps hosted domains to become OpenID providers. The 
> authentication part of it is pretty simple - Google is already 
> logging in users to their apps, so we can also host an OP endpoint 
> for those domains and send assertions back to Relying Parties. What 
> is more difficult is the discovery part. We have been working with 
> the XRI TC to define a XRD-based discovery protocol that would allow 
> this kind of hosting of discovery documents on behalf of our 
> customers. "
> 
> Notice, too, the XML element *using* openid.net's namespace:
> '<Service priority="0"
> xmlns:experimental="<http://experimental.openid.net/google/2009/07/xmlns/>http://experimental.openid.net/google/2009/07/xmlns/">'
> The "experimental" shows up in "xmlns": XML NameSpace.
> 
> I don't think it's POSSIBLE to not use a namespace in this case. I 
> mean, it's kind of, like, THE POINT.
> 
>>And call it your
>>own extension to XRDS which anyone is free to use.
> 
> Even if they did this, though, wouldn't it be using at least *one* 
> namespace in the future? Kind of difficult to avoid domains on the 
> web ;)
> 
> -Shade
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