[OpenID] Summarizing my grouse with XRD

[Santosh Rajan]

The same XRD with a unique <Subject> is independant of the "large number of
URL's" that is presumably pointing to it. If you are talking about
delegation I don't know how this relates to cacheing. Can you give a real
world example?
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Breno de Medeiros <breno at google.com>wrote:

> Considering the following use case: the same XRD, stored at the same
> location, is used by a large number of URLs. The developers can't
> include 1000's of Aliases in the document. If this is not security
> sensitive, they can simply create an XRD without Subject.
>
> The current model for XRD would allow it to be used this way, and
> caching would just work. Adding a Subject would break both caching and
> likely preventing this to work at all.
>
>
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