[OpenID] OpenID v.next. Atom or XRD

[SitG Admin]

>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.

Agreed. I tried writing it to specify "OpenID developers", but kept 
having trouble phrasing that in a non-awkward way, so I finally just 
gave up and left that part out. For moving forward in the immediate 
future, we unfortunately have to look at the developers already 
interested in OpenID; a further (if short) delay would ensue if they 
had to mentally adjust from using XRD to using Atom, and whether this 
delay is worth it for the likelihood that future developers would be 
more welcoming of OpenID if they could use Atom instead of XRD (or 
that more of them would not experience the delay from having to learn 
a new format, whether that be Atom or XRD) is a question I am not 
well-positioned to answer; I did, though, try to help explicate what 
it was that Santosh was asking. (I did not do very well at it.)

I still believe that popularity does not, will not, and cannot help 
me to understand something new. If that popularity results in a 
plethora of documentation on the internet, *the documentation* can 
help - but simply a lot of people liking it, will not.

-Shade