[OpenID] OpenID v.next. Atom or XRD

[John Panzer]

-1: I helped write the Atom spec and even I'm not in favor of switching away
from XRD.  It would have to be incredibly compelling to even consider a
switch at this point in the process, and I don't see anything compelling or
at all broken with XRD.  It would also pull in a bunch of baggage which XRD
itself doesn't need and which would only complexify the process of
understanding the spec.
--
John Panzer / Google
jpanzer at google.com / abstractioneer.org / @jpanzer



On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:09 PM, SitG Admin <sysadmin at shadowsinthegarden.com
> wrote:

>  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
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