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

David Fuelling sappenin at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 21:22:47 UTC 2009


LOL.  So, is it fair to say this document isn't necessary?

Assuming web-finger does what OpenID needs it to WRT to email identifiers,
then OpenID Discovery 2.1 could just reference webfinger.

Am I missing something?

david

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Dirk Balfanz <balfanz at google.com> wrote:

> "*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.
>
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