Moving AX Forward (WAS RE: SREG namespace URI rollback)

[Johnny Bufu]

On 6-Apr-07, at 10:34 AM, Johannes Ernst wrote:
>> Well, as one of the people that wrote the documents. We decided that
>> having separate documents was better. Thanks for sharing your
>> opinion. I have a different opinion.
>
> For somebody who currently doesn't have an opinion on this subject,  
> could you briefly describe the rationale for your view?

If I'm only interested in moving attributes around (the current case  
of the OpenID libraries), I am not interested at all what the  
semantic of the attributes are, just in moving them from A to B. I'll  
let the parties at the both ends of the transaction look up the  
metadata and handle them based on that.

On the other hand when I read a (new) spec it's a lot easier for me  
if there are clearly outlined components with which I don't  
necessarily have to deal at the same time; especially if the  
components have other uses beside the initial combination.

These two seem to have been the rationale of the recent discussions  
about splitting the OpenID spec into core/discovery/etc., which  
seemed to make sense to a number of people (I'm just not sure if it's  
worth / good tactical move at this stage....).


Johnny