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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Three notes on this thread:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>1) First, RE the issue as
to whether specifying the redirect as the canonical identifier when using a URL
is &quot;correct&quot; under HTTP architecture: I'm not an OpenID editor but I
remember that there was a great deal of discussion around this and there was a
good reason (security as I recall) that the final redirect needed to be treated
as the claimed identifier. I don&#8217;t remember exactly what it was. Josh,
David, and Johnny: can you chime in here?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>2) John and Eddy both
pointed out that whatever the claimed identifier was, it can be &#8220;overridden&#8221;
by the OP in the response to the RP. In that case, the intermediate redirects
don&#8217;t matter.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>3) From a SemWeb
standpoint, I believe the right answer is that ALL the identifiers in the chain
&#8211; the original identifier, all redirects, and any &#8220;override&#8221;
back from the OP &#8211; should all be considered synonyms for the identified resource.
In other words, rdf:sameAs statements.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>=Drummond <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:windowtext'> general-bounces@openid.net
[mailto:general-bounces@openid.net] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf
Of </span></b>Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, March 04, 2008 3:22
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> John Panzer<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> general@openid.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [OpenID] Problems
with OpenID and TAG httpRange-14</span></font><font color=black><span
style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>John Panzer: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Some thoughts...<br>
<br>
I own abtractioneer.org.&nbsp; Due to the vagaries of technology not under my
control, I'm forced to actually host content on a subdomain -- <a
href="http://www.abstractioneer.org" moz-do-not-send=true>www.abstractioneer.org</a>
-- while maintaining a (302) redirect from <a href="http://abstractioneer.org"
moz-do-not-send=true>http://abstractioneer.org</a> to <a
href="http://www.abstractioneer.org" moz-do-not-send=true>http://www.abstractioneer.org</a>.&nbsp;
The latter actually has the openid metadata.&nbsp; This will be true for all
Blogger-hosted blogs, so it's not just me.&nbsp; So there's some annoyance
there, I apparently must be known as www.&nbsp; That's not great.<br>
<br>
What about when a page moves?&nbsp; Specifically, on Blogger if you acquire a
custom domain for your blog, your old x.blogger.com page redirects to the new
domain. The idea is to not break links, bookmarks, or other things that depend
on the URLs.&nbsp; So abstractioneer.blogspot.com currently redirects to <a
href="http://www.blogspot.com" moz-do-not-send=true>www.blogspot.com</a>.&nbsp;
But what if I had established an account as abstractioneer.blogspot.com on some
service, do the custom domain thing, and then need to go back and login to that
service?&nbsp; If resolution works as below, I can never authenticate as
abstractioneer.blogspot.com.&nbsp; But if the service remembered the URL I
provided, I could choose, by providing abstractioneer.blogspot.com or
abstractioneer.org to the site depending on the site.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Eddy wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Does this matter at all?
Because the OP must return the claimed ID anyway, so what do we care which URL
it gets directed too? If you enter &quot;abstractioneer.org&quot; or
&quot;myid.abstractioneer.org&quot; doesn't really matter if discovery works
correctly, since the claimed ID will return always
&quot;myid.abstractioneer.org&quot;. Or do I miss the point here?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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  style='font-size:12.0pt'>Regards&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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  <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
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  <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
  style='font-size:12.0pt'>Eddy Nigg, <a href="http://www.startcom.org">StartCom
  Ltd.</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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  style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="xmpp:startcom@startcom.org">startcom@startcom.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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  style='font-size:12.0pt'>Blog:&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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  style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://blog.startcom.org">Join the
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