[OpenID] OpenID v.next. Atom or XRD

[Pat Cappelaere]

Shade,

There are probably more developers that have experience generating Atom feeds than XRD documents.

So "IF" we could use Atom to achieve the same purpose as XRD, then it is likely that developers may be jumping on it rather than having to learn yet another format.

For the record, XRD and schemas are far more difficult to digest than atom feeds (for most of us)

When Google needed a way to describe user resources in GData, what did they use? and why?
Just wondering...

Thanks.

Pat.



On Nov 16, 2009, at 6:27 PM, SitG Admin wrote:

>> 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
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