<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Santosh Rajan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:santrajan@gmail.com">santrajan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I am ok with Google using the <a href="http://openid.net" target="_blank">openid.net</a> namespace (first choice). If that is<br>
not possible then I prefer they use the default namespace instead of their<br>
own.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not an XML expert, but I believe that a strict parser that tries to verify the XRDS according to its XSD (<a href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/2.0/specs/cd02/xrds.xsd">http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/2.0/specs/cd02/xrds.xsd</a>, <a href="http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/2.0/specs/cd02/xrd.xsd">http://docs.oasis-open.org/xri/2.0/specs/cd02/xrd.xsd</a>) would reject the XRDS if UriTemplate and NextAuthority were in the default namespace.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Dirk.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div class="h5"><br>
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SitG Admin wrote:<br>
><br>
>>These elements will take on the default<br>
>>namespace.<br>
><br>
> Okay. This makes a lot more sense than not having any namespaces at all.<br>
><br>
> Like if the anti-Network-Neutrality advocates were saying "Let's just<br>
> not have any bandwidth at all." - establishing private lines must, by<br>
> definition, create bandwidth (even if they're not using the normal<br>
> bandwidth).<br>
><br>
> It seems to me that, by using their own namespace (restraining<br>
> interop with the larger XRI world), they are making things simpler<br>
> for themselves at the outset with a private namespace. Later, they<br>
> can always create a relay for communicating with other XRI<br>
> namespaces, or even switch to a general implementation for natural<br>
> compatibility with the public XRI namespace.<br>
><br>
> Complicating matters, they propose to actually use *<a href="http://openid.net" target="_blank">openid.net</a>'s*<br>
> namespace instead of their own, but this actually makes things<br>
> simpler because any 3rd parties who step in later (to test<br>
> interoperability) won't have to demarcate multiple namespaces to<br>
> account for each Provider that has *joined* Google in experimenting<br>
> with this; they just have to look for the single namespace at<br>
> "<a href="http://openid.net" target="_blank">openid.net</a>".<br>
><br>
> Control is held by the Foundation, which can shut things down if any<br>
> participating party abuses the feature. When an experiment is deemed<br>
> successful (enough to develop into a spec), and accepted by the<br>
> Foundation, the same practice naturally migrates from <a href="http://openid.net" target="_blank">openid.net</a> to<br>
> various providers "in the wild". I'm not seeing anything broken here.<br>
> Does it need to be fixed?<br>
><br>
> -Shade<br>
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