[OpenID] Authorized Voting for Email Like Identifiers

[David Fuelling]

Hey Santosh,

I think there's a broader issue at hand, namely: what type of identifier
should OpenID support, in general.

You and I (and others) would like to see email addresses accepted as valid
OpenID's, but from a spec perspective, does it really make sense to allow
"just one more benighted Identifier"?

I think from a fairness perspective (think of Peter who wants ldap://
Identifiers to be valid OpenID's -- [just kidding, Peter]), and from a "good
engineering" perspective, the best path is to get XRD accepted as the
Discovery mechansim for OpenID.

Why do I say this?  Because XRD will provide a baseline framework for
Discovering "meta data" about an Identifier.  Once in place, the sky is the
limit.  OpenID could use email addresses, Jabber ID's, ftp urls...anything
where there is a mechanism to "do discovery" on that identifier in order to
"discover" which OpenID features that the Identifier supports.

If you haven't already, I suggest reading Eran's great blog posts about
Discovery (in general):
http://www.hueniverse.com/hueniverse/2009/03/the-discovery-protocol-stack.html

and more specifically, about XRD:
http://www.hueniverse.com/hueniverse/2009/03/xrd-sneakpeek.html

Hopefully once you do, you'll find that yours and my quest to get email
addresses as OpenID's really hinges on 1.) The adoption of XRD; and 2.) A
Working Group centered around 2.1 Discovery.

I think that's the place to be directing our energies...

Agree?

David

ps: Please vote on my "community opinion" page if you can:
http://wiki.openid.net/Identifier-and-Discovery-2_1-Questions

pps- Disclaimer: I'm not on the OIDF board

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Santosh Rajan <santrajan at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> I would like to hear an answer to this post from the OpenID foundation
> board.
>
>
>
> Santosh Rajan wrote:
> >
> >
> > A Vote authorized by the foundation must be conducted to decide whether
> > Email Like identifiers will be in the core spec of OpenID 2.1.
> > If that is not possible the foundation must officially announce whether
> > Email like identifiers will be in the Core Spec of 2.1.
> >
> > This will greatly help people decide, how and on what to spend their time
> > and effort, and will also ensure that their time and effort does not go
> to
> > waste.
> >
> > I also see an urgency in this matter because ideally I would like to see
> > 2.1 come out soon because there will be Wave servers being released by
> the
> > last quarter of the year. If we can have 2.1 before that we will be in a
> > position to offer OpenID as an alternative. Otherwise I am sure XMPP
> > authentication will grow into a Federated authentication.
> >
> > Here is a link to show the latest plans of Google Wave.
> >
> >
> http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol/browse_thread/thread/2acef1d32b4def06?pli=1
> >
> http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol/browse_thread/thread/2acef1d32b4def06?pli=1
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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