Hi All: <div><br></div><div>David set up the github repository a while ago for OpenID specs. </div><div>The address for openid projects at github is as follows: </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'MS UI Gothic'; white-space: pre; "><a href="http://github.com/openid/">http://github.com/openid/</a></span></div>
<div><br></div><div>The repository address for CX is as follows: </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'MS UI Gothic'; white-space: pre; "><a href="http://github.com/openid/Contract-Exchange-Extension">http://github.com/openid/Contract-Exchange-Extension</a></span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">We are still working on ReStructured Text format rather than RFC XML format since it is easier to work with. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">When things gets sufficiently settled, then we will produce the XML version. </span></font></div><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">To view the ReStructured Text source for the CX spec, see: </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">cx-doc/source/openid_cx_spec.rst</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">You need to open it in a text editor to view it. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">There is an HTML version as well. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><a href="http://github.com/openid/Contract-Exchange-Extension/raw/master/cx-doc/build/html/openid_cx_spec.html">http://github.com/openid/Contract-Exchange-Extension/raw/master/cx-doc/build/html/openid_cx_spec.html</a></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">This is probably the easier way to view the document for you unless you are editing the document. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">The main changes between the previous one and this revision are as follows: </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">1. We now do not have <proposal> element, but will indicate proposal and agreement by /Contract/Type. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">2. New Template element is defined so that Human friendly text can be created. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"> The value of Most element in the Contract can be substituted into the template variables. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">3. New TemplateURL element is defined. It has a particular form with built-in hash. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"> It also indicates what kind of contract it is, and is to be advertised in XRD/s. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">4. New Param element is defined. One can define Type attribute to extend it without extending XML schema. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">5. As the Param Type, several of them are defined as MUST support. Among it, axreq is the most </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"> notable one, in which you can fit AX request in tag=value format, so at a later date, </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"> based on the contract, one can pull the data etc. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">6. Pushed out AX 1.1 fetch parameter portion and Artifact Binding portion out of this spec. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"> (I will post separate documents for them.) </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">I have not posted yet, but I will post remaining issues at github. Some notable things: </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">a. Need to add cardinality to each elements. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">b. Need to create XML Schema. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'MS UI Gothic'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">Any comments are welcome. </span></font></div><div><br>-- <br>Nat Sakimura (=nat)<br>
<a href="http://www.sakimura.org/en/">http://www.sakimura.org/en/</a><br>
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