[OpenID] OpenID 2.1 Identifier Types --> WAS [Discovery for Email like identifiers]

[Chris Messina]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Peter Williams <pwilliams at rapattoni.com>wrote:

>
> Given the logic, should i guess now that google don't want the users to
> have op portability, and just "opted out" of that bit of discovery,
> intentionally breaking the delegation support in their op?
>

Do you mean Facebook?


> But its interesting to see which bits of uci are unpalatable to large
> corporations.
>

This wasn't a big company decision; this was simply Luke's decision in
trying to make sense of the OpenID spec.


>
> 2.1 will drop delegation and xri, is my prediction. Xri (and hxri) will go
> completely and supporting portability will be made optional.
>

I certainly would prefer that delegation not be dropped, and will fight to
prevent that from happening. Delegation is apparently one of the more
challenging aspects of the spec as well, but I think with XRD-based
discovery, it can stay — and should.

I don't know that anyone has proposed taking that out, nor do I think anyone
wants to take that out.

XRI specifically hasn't taken off relative to OpenID itself — and it seems
silly to keep features that clearly are not being asked for in the
marketplace.

Chris

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