[OpenID] OpenID v.next. Atom or XRD

[SitG Admin]

>3) Atom is a format easily understood by developers because of its popularity.

It does NOT work this way. I don't go "Gee, since WIndows is so 
popular, it must be easy to understand."

I would modify your sentence to say "Atom is a format easily 
understood by developers, WHICH CAN BE SEEN BY its popularity."; it 
still might be untrue, but at least it would be sensible ;)

>If we have to consider XRD instead of atom, XRD needs to prove two things.
>1) what can XRD do that atom or an extension of atom cannot do?

But it's *not* "instead of". XRD is not being proposed as an 
alternative to "this rival spec, Atom"; it's what people have been 
working on for a while, and are prepared to move forward with. But 
suddenly, you think that it would be better to start over with a 
*different* format? Even if there was NOTHING BETTER about XRD than 
Atom, it would STILL be better to use XRD right now, because the XRD 
position is better than the Atom position. Indeed that seems to be 
the case, since Atom and XRD are both XML-based. If you don't *gain* 
anything by switching to Atom, why bother?

Or is the switch *away from* XRD a gain, itself? I've noticed, 
through a lot of your recently started threads, a lot of variance in 
what you're *for*, but a single consistent theme in what you're 
*against*: XRD.

-Shade