[OpenID] Community Opinion on OID 2.1 Discovery and Identifiers...

[David Fuelling]

The point below (about the community needing to decide if it's going to
support webfinger) is just one of many questions I'd like community to
decide concerning OID Auth 2.1 Discovery and Identifier support.

Maybe this is where a WG should be formed....I'm not really sure.  It seems
kind of backwards to form a working group about something like email
identifiers (e.g.) and then come back to the community with some decision.
It seems like the community should reach some consensus first, and then we
start a WG.  Perhaps I have the wrong notion of what a Working Group is.

At any rate, *in the absence of a WG* on any of these issues, I'm curious to
know the community's opinion on these questions so we can all know what the
general consensus is.

So, at the risk of igniting a firestorm, I created a bunch of Jyte claims
and embedded them in the wiki.  Please share your vote (and thus your
opinion) if you so wish.

https://openid.pbworks.com/Identifier-and-Discovery-2_1-Questions

Also, please note that I'm not authoritative about the questions.  Feel free
to embed your own claim into the wiki page (though I tried to be fair in the
framing of the questions).

David

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Santosh Rajan <santrajan at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Dirk Balfanz <balfanz at google.com> wrote:
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>> I Webfinger gives you everything you need. The OpenID community just needs
>> to decide whether the email-like identifiers falling out of webfinger are
>> acceptable OpenIDs.
>>
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> I think you have a raised a very valid issue here. I didn't realize that
> first time round. You are right. I don't see any point in continuing with
> the email issue without a clear answer to this question.
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