Questions about OpenID Attribute Properties Draft 1

[Dick Hardt]

On 4-Oct-06, at 4:53 AM, Frank I. Reiter wrote:

> 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.
>>
>
> Agree.  What if it was contact/namedservice/{URI}, with any valid URI.
> this allows any service provider to add itself without changing the  
> spec.

First of all, the list of properties is not part of the spec. Anyone  
can define a new URI to be a new property, the properties do not need  
be under openid.net at all.

I would hope that sites would start to define their own properties at  
some point in the future.

-- Dick