Went Through it With Brad

[Johannes Ernst]

> 1) 9.1 in the openid.ns parameter talks about using this value in
> regards to compare with a lower version number of the protocol.   
> Looking
> at things such as Jabber, it is nearly impossible to deal with version
> comparisons in any sane way.  I'm not sure what the best way is to
> resolve this.

In my experience, one should use a human-comprehensible versioning  
scheme, but software should only do equals/does not equal  
comparisons; no automatic "guesses" whether or not version 4 of  
something is the same as version 2, or to what degree.



Johannes Ernst
NetMesh Inc.


 http://netmesh.info/jernst

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