Shane,<br><br>To limit it explicitly prevents the erosion of the spec by people randomly making up additional field names and starting to use them in conflict with each other. If I come up with a "phone" field referring to headphone preference and you decide to add "phone" and use it for cell phones then we're obviously in conflict with each other and our OP/RP will not get along. I like that SREG guarantees this won't happen by closing itself to extensibility. <br>
<br>If you are thinking about closed-house special cases where you control both parties, then party on and extend it if you so desire. No one else will ever know or care that you aren't implementing SREG according to the spec. :)<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Shane B Weeden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sweeden@au1.ibm.com">sweeden@au1.ibm.com</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;">
<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Just to be clear - I am not asking for
more work to be done on defining other SREG attribute types and names,
I am simply asking for the spec not to dictate that the listed attributes
in section 4 are the ONLY allowed attributes. There seems no logical reason
to do so and it may result in open source (and other) libraries implementing
restrictions which offer no benefits to consumers and may make some deployments
harder. I really didn't think it would be a big deal.</font>
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<br><tt><font size="2"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On 12/01/2008 09:02 PM, Martin Atkins:<br>
> Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote:<br>
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>> On 12/01/2008 07:58 PM, David Recordon:<br>
>>> <a href="http://www.axschema.org/types/" target="_blank">http://www.axschema.org/types/</a><br>
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>> So it would be fairly easy to extend exactly according to these
types <br>
>> and everybody is happy....or am I missing something?<br>
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> It already has been extended according to these types. We called it
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> Attribute Exchange. :)<br>
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Can you explain the call for extending SREG then and why AX isn't widely
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