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

[Breno de Medeiros]

Forming a WG and gathering community consensus are not two separate options,
they go hand in hand.

With a WG there would be clarity on what is the direction that things are
expected to go and chances are that the community discussion will become
increasingly focused and progress towards a well-informed and argued
consent. Without a WG there is also limitations on what can be accomplished
because of a lack of IPR guidance.



On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:51 AM, David Fuelling <sappenin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Dirk Balfanz <balfanz at google.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>> 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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