<div>In general, I don't think you need to "adapt" webfinger. Webfinger gives you everything you need. The OpenID community just needs to decide whether the email-like identifiers falling out of webfinger are acceptable OpenIDs.</div>
<div><br></div>Couple of specific comments:<div><br></div><div>- re signatures: I would just use whatever the XRI TC comes up with there for XRD signing.</div><div>- I don't think you should have the openid21.provider Rel-type with the URI. Since you start with an email(-like) identifier, it is clear that you're performing discovery on an identifier for a user, not for a host. So you should only look for a Link element that has a URITemplate in it. If you want to map all users to the same endpoint, just make it a template that doesn't actually have any unbound variables in it.</div>
- "openid21.usermeta" should should be something generic like "describedby" - as you point out that's the user's _meta data_, not just OpenID stuff (although there was some discussion at IIW that "describedby" isn't appropriate b/c the email-like identifier isn't technically a URI, and URITemplates, and "describedby" are supposed to be for URIs - but I think that's a technicality we'll work out). <br>
- the openid21.local_id being its own Link seems weird to me. Why not something like this:<br><br><Link><br> <Rel>openid.provider</Rel><br> <URI><a href="http://openidprovider.com/op">http://openidprovider.com/op</a></URI><br>
<openid:LocalID xmlns:openid="http://...">some-local-id</openid:LocalID><br>
<div></Link><br><br>Dirk.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Santosh Rajan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:santrajan@gmail.com" target="_blank">santrajan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I have posted a draft spec on the wiki to get the ball rolling on this one.<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID-discovery-for-Email-Like-identifiers" target="_blank">http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID-discovery-for-Email-Like-identifiers</a> OpenID<br>
Discovery for Email like identifiers - Draft 0.1<br>
Lets have some discussion on this in order to add this into the 2.1<br>
proposal.<br>
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