<div dir="ltr">It's no different than Attribute Exchange. You can make up your own attribute Type URIs there too, but the fact that few people will understand you keep things in check.<br><br>Although, I will say, we already have at least <i>three</i> islands with AX, since the "standard" set of attributes have at least there type URIs each. (stupid... especially since <a href="http://myopenid.com">myopenid.com</a> as big as it is, doesn't even support the official-standard set, if there is such a thing)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Christoph Eunicke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christoph@eunicke.de">christoph@eunicke.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Anders Feder wrote:<br>
> lør, 09 08 2008 kl. 11:21 +0200, skrev Christoph Eunicke:<br>
>> Also since the addition of a policy would require to change both<br>
>> (Provivder and RP), I don't see how additional policies could spread<br>
>> out. Why should my RP request the additional policy<br>
>> "using-a-blue-keyboard" if I already know that the only OP in the<br>
>> world<br>
>> that supports this policy is the one I've written.<br>
><br>
> I'm not involved in the development of these standards, but the idea<br>
> would be that a community of OpenID nodes with common security interests<br>
> (say, a group of banks or a group of government agencies running both<br>
> RP's and OP's) would be able to agree on a policy together and implement<br>
> it swiftly among themselves, without having to go through a lengthy<br>
> OpenID standards process.<br>
<br>
</div>Do I get you right? If you want to do homebrew-OpenID, feel free to do<br>
so. No one else might understand you, but it is still standard-OpenID.<br>
<br>
Why don't use the possibility to create an extension[1], that would be a<br>
more suited way, at least in my eyes..<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Christoph<br>
<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0.html#extensions" target="_blank">http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0.html#extensions</a><br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
--<br>
Christoph Eunicke<br>
Computer Networks and Internet<br>
Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science<br>
University of Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany<br>
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