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On 11/30/2008 12:39 AM, Martin Atkins:
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<pre wrap="">Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Which is probably because AX was supposed to take care of it. However
SREG is widely implemented and I agree that we should make it possible
to easily extend SREG.
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If you make it possible to extend SREG, what you end up with is AX with
a few predefined attributes baked into the spec and no ability for those
attribute to be updated by third-parties.
I'm not sure anyone actually uses the ability for the attributes to be
updated by third-parties, so for all intents and purposes you'd just be
reinventing AX as far as I can tell.
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Yes, I mentioned that AX is supposed to take care of this.<br>
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What do you see as the value of having two parallel specs that both have
the same functionality apart from one having a feature that no-one uses?
(or are you proposing that SREG would replace AX altogether?)
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But one might ask, why SREG has become popular (if we can speak about
popularity in terms of OpenID ;-) ), whereas AX isn't widely
implemented as far as I can tell. Maybe it's because of the pre-defined
fields or because of its simplicity, I don't know. But something tells
me that SREG has been successful, why not extend it in some form. <br>
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