Modularizing Auth 2.0 Discovery

[Martin Atkins]

Martin Atkins wrote:
> My proposal is that we make the core Auth 2.0 spec scheme-agnostic.

Attached is a version of the current spec draft 11 with large chunks of 
the discovery/normalization stuff hacked out and replaced with generic 
"see other specifications" text.

I think I may have deleted too much in that we've lost the detailed 
rules for dealing with XRDS documents, which are probably going to be 
referenced by most discovery specs and deserve to be in the core spec. 
See the TODO: markers for more info.

However, in doing this it also occured to me that it would be very 
useful to have the XRDS-related bits of the XRI resolution spec in a 
separate document that we could reference, since our new 
protocol-agnostic core Auth 2.0 spec has no need for the rest of XRI 
resolution. I wonder if the XRI guys would consider making Chapter 3 of 
the XRI Resolution 2.0 spec into a separate document that OpenID Auth 
could reference directly?

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