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

[Chris Messina]

+1. Fewer specs and fewer working groups are better.
Web Finger has been developed outside of the WG IPR system though, so that's
one thing that I would be concerned about.

That said, the challenge then is:

1. getting momentum around the OpenID 2.1 WG (
http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID_Authenticatioan_2_1)
2. figuring out how to fold Web Finger into the discovery portion of OpenID
2.1 in a one that results in satisfying the IPR requirements.

I'd also like to point out the prior art here, just for completeness:

http://wiki.openid.net/Debating-Emails-as-1st-Class-or-2nd-Class-Citizens
http://wiki.openid.net/Debating-Emails-as-OpenIDs

http://eaut.org

Chris

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:22 PM, David Fuelling <sappenin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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