PROPOSAL schema.openid.net for AX (and other extensions)

[James Walker]

On 4/9/07 3:55 PM, Martin Atkins wrote:
> James Walker wrote:
>> As an implementor - there would be extremely positive benefits from
>> having a base set of attributes defined and available @
>> schema.openid.net . I agree that the people most interested right now
>> are the OpenID community & implementors and it makes sense (to me) for
>> openid.net to offer something - even just as a 'getting started point'.
>>
> [snip]
>> What we need now (from my point of view) is a base set that we can work
>> against to build momentum behind AX (building on the momentum already
>> behind OpenID).
>>
> 
> If our goal is to not reinvent the wheel, then let's just identify some 
> AX mappings for the existing SREG fields, thus killing two birds with 
> one stone: people migrating from SREG get some fields that offer 
> one-to-one mappings, and these fields can be defined just by referencing 
> the existing SREG specification so we avoid having to define anything.
> 
> SREG seems to be working well in the common case, so it seems like a 
> reasonable place to start.

I agree it's an excellent place to start - upgrade path + as you point 
out it's working well in several cases today.

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