[OpenID] OpenID v.next. Atom or XRD

[Santosh Rajan]

Looks like there is a consensus for not using atom. And I will go with that.

Having said that, i must point out the comment made by John Kemp.
>>>The important thing, regardless of the "format de jour", is the "resource
model" that can underpin them all."<<<

I agree with him. This is significant. Any spec dealing with Resources,
needs to deal with the resource model, which i think the XRD spec has failed
to deal with.

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:25 PM, John Kemp <john at jkemp.net> wrote:

> Chris Messina wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>
>  And, why are we having this discussion? This is a frivolous conversation
>> at this point — since ATOM itself is just an XML data format. XRD is just
>> another XML data format designed for a different purpose.
>>
>>
> I mostly agree with this.
>
> In Liberty ID-WSF we also designed a discovery representation (ID-WSF
> Discovery Service). A few years ago, I tried putting that in Atom, and it
> worked just fine, using Atom as an envelope format, but there seemed little
> point other than that a regular Atom feed-reading Web browser would render
> the discovery resources somewhat nicely in the browser, which allowed an
> actual user to be able to browse and use the discovery resources through
> regular Web means.
>
> The same could be accomplished by specifying an XSLT transform for XRD
> documents, and including a link to that in the XRD I guess. You could also
> choose HTML (with microformats) + CSS for something like that...
>
> The important thing, regardless of the "format de jour", is the "resource
> model" that can underpin them all.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - johnk
>
>
>
>


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