[OpenID] OpenID Discovery for Email like identifiers - Draft 0.1

[Dirk Balfanz]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:06 PM, David Fuelling <sappenin at gmail.com> wrote:

> What do you think about changing the "*Objective*" text to read as
> follows:
>
> "*The objective of the protocol is to get a users XRD XML file from an
> email-like identifier (e.g., an email address, XRI, XMPP-Id, Wave-Id, etc).
> *"
>

That is _exactly_ the objective of webfinger.

Dirk.


>
> It seems like focusing on getting a user's XRD would allow us to then
> fallback right into OpenID Discovery 2.0 (or 2.1).   Granted, this ties
> "email-like identifiers" to XRD, but I think this is ok, since XRD has a
> number of different mechanisms to go about getting the XRD document.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> David
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Santosh Rajan <santrajan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I have posted a draft spec on the wiki to get the ball rolling on this
>> one.
>> http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID-discovery-for-Email-Like-identifiers OpenID
>> Discovery for Email like identifiers - Draft 0.1
>> Lets have some discussion on this in order to add this into the 2.1
>> proposal.
>>
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