This is something that has me stumped. I am sure this subject has been discussed in various forms before. But i think we need to clarify this, now that we are talking about openid v.next.<div><br></div><div>Let us start with the semantic web folks. According to them the answer is no (if i have understood them correctly)! eg. if John's OpenID was <a href="http://example.com/john" target="_blank">http://example.com/john</a>, then according to the semantic web folks</div>
<div>1) <a href="http://example.com/john#me" target="_blank">http://example.com/john#me</a> is John's OpenID</div><div>2) <a href="http://example.com/john#home" target="_blank">http://example.com/john#home</a> is John's homepage</div>
<div>3) <a href="http://example.com/john#RDF" target="_blank">http://example.com/john#RDF</a> is John's resource descriptor. (I am using RDF, or Atom if you may) instead of XRD because I am pissed off by XRD).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also they have another solution called content negotiation, (but it does not matter as far as this discussion is concerned).</div><div><br></div><div>Next is OpenID 1.0. According to which John's OpenID resolves to his html homepage, which will contain his resource descriptor information.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Then we have directed identity, which resolves to nothing really, other that some "BIG EGOS". This should be dumped, and we should assuage the big ego's with an acct: URI. Which is actually fair.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Then we come to the final problem of OpenID's and acct: URI's. Both should resolve to something, and the same thing. The resource descriptor. </div><div><br></div><div>Now I firmly believe that identifiers should resolve to their descriptor's. It is only fair that identifiers resolve to something meaningful. This is where i disagree with the semantic web folks.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Then we come to the final question. Do we dump the idea of OpenID's resolving to the document page? And make it mandatory for OpenID's to resolve to the descriptors? Or we need a descriptor format that is compatible and can be merged in to the html? Or we solve the problem with content negotiation?</div>
<div><br>-- <br><a href="http://hi.im/santosh" target="_blank">http://hi.im/santosh</a><br><br><br>
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