[OpenID] Why use SREG instead of AX?

[Breno de Medeiros]

Ping.

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:41 AM, John Bradley<john.bradley at wingaa.com> wrote:
> Breno,
>
> It's on my list for this weekend.
>
> I think Andrew's idea is a interesting solution.
>
> I don't think that overloading the <Type> attribute is a good long term
> solution.
>
> I hope we could do something better for XRD 1.0 discovery to describe the
> features of a OP.
>
> In the short term overloading <Type> is something we can do.
>
> The other pressing issues for AX are:
> 1 Registering a <Type> for discovering the RP privacy policy
> 2 Registering a <Type> for discovering the RP Terms of Service.
> 3 Having a way for the RP to know if the OP supports if_available.
>
> The last one is important to deal with the fact that some OP ignore
> if_available in requests and only give the user the choice to return the
> attributes that are requested as "REQUIRED".
>
> All the OPs could agree on a single way to interpret AX requests but that is
> a touch optimistic:)
>
> Having a way for a RP to differentiate between OPs operating on different
> theories would be good for RPs.
>
> John B.
> On 10-Jul-09, at 1:35 PM, general-request at openid.net wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:00:05 -0700
>> From: Breno de Medeiros <breno at google.com>
>> Subject: Re: [OpenID] Why use SREG instead of AX?
>> To: Andrew Arnott <andrewarnott at gmail.com>
>> Cc: general at openid.net
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>> For one, it would be interesting if someone with expertise on how to
>> create
>> lightweight processes for registration would clarify the language in that
>> wiki document. Hopefully, it would be possible to define a process that
>> exempts the OIDF from the burden of having to impose the current IPR
>> policy
>> on each contributor. (I had hoped JBradley would take that on, but he has
>> plenty on his hands at this point).
>> Once that wiki page is in good shape we could spam specs@ to bless it and
>> then we can get started right away. There is even an initial understanding
>> to use the domain name schemas.openid.net  and to host each registered URL
>> at that domain with a description of the wire format for the attribute. So
>> once this is up, I think progress could be made quickly.
>
>



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