[OpenID] Case for a unified scheme for OpenID "oid:"

[John Bradley]

I think if we are going to consider identifiers as we should in V Next,  one of the core issues should be support of portable identifiers for claimed ID's.

I am relatively ambivalent about the format of the user entered identifier.  
Anything that gets the user to the correct OP works in principal.

The way we are headed with the nascar users entering identifiers is becoming less likely all the time.

The question is should we have a way for people to move there claimed ID from one provider to another.
Yes XRI supports that between OPs that support XRI.

Some will argue that XRI is or has died so that couldn't have been an important feature.

Perhaps that is true.  People may like the increasingly sticky relationship with there OP.

Portability and the ability to self assert without an OP should be considered.

I am slightly less optimistic than Shade about XRI eventually taking over.   
However that doesn't mean that we cant save some of the important design goals.

Regards
John B.

On 2009-11-28, at 12:49 PM, SitG Admin wrote:

>> Please remember "oid:" is a urn and this is consistent with usages like "tag:something:something".
> 
> So, during discovery, the user is essentially telling a RP "the identifier you are about to receive, whether it be URL or E-mail address or something else entirely, is an OpenID meant to log in with"?
> 
> Past proposals (discussed in this list's archives, if you'd like to look) have included new protocols and new TLD's; see this post in particular:
> http://lists.openid.net/pipermail/openid-general/2006-December/000826.html
> Note, too, that TLD's are a non-issue when everyone moves to XRI's ;)
> 
> -Shade
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