[Openid-specs-ab] UserInfo endpoint -- FB's suggestion

[Breno de Medeiros]

I just noticed that there is a recent announcement for yet another
schema to provide contact information in the web: schema.org. This one
was apparently agreed upon by the major search engines so it has
potential for significant adoption.

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 15:27, Mike Jones <Michael.Jones at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Thanks for having this discussion Breno and David!  I agree that there are more commonalities than differences.
>
> Comparing Edmund's write-up and Breno's, these schema elements are also missing from the Facebook proposal:  phone number, address, and timezone.  Presumably these can be added -- especially since we already have the policy that IdPs are free to not return some elements for privacy reasons.
>
> I assume that the data formats for the values are intended to be those used by Facebook where there is a clear correspondence?  Fine by me -- we'd just have to nail down the exact data representations for things like gender and locale.
>
> Others thoughts?
>
>                                -- Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: openid-specs-ab-bounces at lists.openid.net [mailto:openid-specs-ab-bounces at lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of Breno de Medeiros
> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 2:54 PM
> To: Edmund Jay
> Cc: openid-specs-ab at lists.openid.net; David Recordon
> Subject: Re: [Openid-specs-ab] UserInfo endpoint -- FB's suggestion
>
> An initial remark to get this started:
>
> The specific format of request/response is less important than ensuring wide adoption and interop for what are very simple (but
> valuable) attribute types.
>
> Points of agreement in the proposals are more significant than the points of disagreement:
>
> - OAuth2 protected resource as the interaction pattern with the endpoint
> - attribute set (any differences are covered by the language that says IDPs are not required to provide all attributes)
> - how to request specific attributes
> - JSON representation
>
> Disagreement:
>
> - Parameter names
> - Parameter values in the IIW proposal can be different than string
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 14:45, Edmund Jay <ejay at mgi1.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, I forgot to attach the draft.
>>
>> -- Edmund
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: "ejspm-openidab at yahoo.com" <ejspm-openidab at yahoo.com>
>> To: Breno de Medeiros <breno at google.com>; "openid-specs-ab at lists.openid.net"
>> <openid-specs-ab at lists.openid.net>
>> Cc: David Recordon <dr at fb.com>
>> Sent: Thu, June 2, 2011 2:34:15 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Openid-specs-ab] UserInfo endpoint -- FB's suggestion
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm attaching a draft of the Userinfo endpoint schema that a couple of
>> us worked on which reflects the consensus that was reached at IIW 2011.
>>
>> -- Edmund
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Breno de Medeiros <breno at google.com>
>> To: "openid-specs-ab at lists.openid.net"
>> <openid-specs-ab at lists.openid.net>
>> Cc: David Recordon <dr at fb.com>
>> Sent: Thu, June 2, 2011 1:32:44 PM
>> Subject: [Openid-specs-ab] UserInfo endpoint -- FB's suggestion
>>
>> Some Googlers went on a trek to Facebook HQ to talk about UserInfo
>> endpoint schema. That's the counter-proposal that FB put forward for
>> the UserInfo endpoint (FBers, please scream if I mis-represent).
>>
>> id - global user id
>> name (name in a displayable form including all name parts in the order
>> compatible with user's locale and preferences).
>> given_name
>> family_name
>> profile - URL of profile
>> picture - URL of picture
>> email
>> gender
>> birthday (I think in yyyy-mm-dd format?) locale (xx-XX ??) verified
>> (boolean indicating verification status of email)
>>
>> --
>> --Breno
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--Breno