[OpenID] experimental namespace for openid.net

[Santosh Rajan]

I am ok with Google using the openid.net namespace (first choice). If that is
not possible then I prefer they use the default namespace instead of their
own. 


SitG Admin wrote:
> 
>>These elements will take on the default
>>namespace.
> 
> Okay. This makes a lot more sense than not having any namespaces at all.
> 
> Like if the anti-Network-Neutrality advocates were saying "Let's just 
> not have any bandwidth at all." - establishing private lines must, by 
> definition, create bandwidth (even if they're not using the normal 
> bandwidth).
> 
> It seems to me that, by using their own namespace (restraining 
> interop with the larger XRI world), they are making things simpler 
> for themselves at the outset with a private namespace. Later, they 
> can always create a relay for communicating with other XRI 
> namespaces, or even switch to a general implementation for natural 
> compatibility with the public XRI namespace.
> 
> Complicating matters, they propose to actually use *openid.net's* 
> namespace instead of their own, but this actually makes things 
> simpler because any 3rd parties who step in later (to test 
> interoperability) won't have to demarcate multiple namespaces to 
> account for each Provider that has *joined* Google in experimenting 
> with this; they just have to look for the single namespace at 
> "openid.net".
> 
> Control is held by the Foundation, which can shut things down if any 
> participating party abuses the feature. When an experiment is deemed 
> successful (enough to develop into a spec), and accepted by the 
> Foundation, the same practice naturally migrates from openid.net to 
> various providers "in the wild". I'm not seeing anything broken here. 
> Does it need to be fixed?
> 
> -Shade
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