[OpenID] host-meta and "acct:"

[John Bradley]

+1
On 2009-11-05, at 11:13 PM, SitG Admin wrote:

> I think I have a better understanding now. I will try to explain it:
>
>> Are you suggesting that you guys know something which those guys  
>> didn't know?
>
> No. But . . . forward-compatibility.
>
> History has shown us that we (and others) will continue to have  
> ideas that are not covered by existing specs, requiring us to either  
> come up with new specs or modify existing specs. We don't need to  
> specifically anticipate these ideas, we don't need to know all the  
> details, to foresee that they (probably) *will* be pursued. If, at  
> that time, the XRD spec does not support them, their development  
> will be slowed down, and their implementors may go make a rival spec  
> to accomplish/support what *they* are after, faster than XRD can be  
> modified to allow for it. This splinters what would otherwise be a  
> single XRD community into several similar groups, and divides the  
> attention of those whose interest is rooted more in the compatible  
> ideas than steadfast loyalty to particular specs.
>
> By putting greater flexibility into the XRD spec than any specific  
> *need* has been shown for, compatibility with future ideas is made  
> more likely. Today the Subject may be necessary for 99% of use  
> cases; that percentage may change again in future, though.
>
> -Shade
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