Questions about OpenID Attribute Properties Draft 1

Drummond Reed drummond.reed at cordance.net
Wed Oct 4 15:14:29 UTC 2006


>> Dick Hardt wrote:
>>
>> Need the name of the site in the property otherwise the RP won't be  
>> able to ask for it.
>>
>> previous suggestion was that the name should be a domain name "../ 
>> flickr.com" vs "../flickr"
>>
>> I would like to make it really easy for sites to get added to the  
>> property list.
>>  
>Frank I. Reiter wrote:
>
>Agree.  What if it was contact/namedservice/{URI}, with any valid URI.  
>this allows any service provider to add itself without changing the spec.

Bingo! That's the pattern we use in XDI, Frank -- every namespace can extend
the dictionary under their own namespace.

=Drummond 




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