Modularizing Auth 2.0 Discovery

Martin Atkins mart at degeneration.co.uk
Wed Feb 28 20:24:19 UTC 2007


Drummond Reed wrote:
> 
> Under this approach, discovery all identifiers (URLs, XRI i-names/i-numbers,
> email addresses, phone numbers, etc.) would be handled by OpenID Discovery.
> 

I disagree that a single spec can contain discovery rules for all 
conceivable discovery types without becoming ridiculously big. The 
discovery rules in the current spec for just handling HTTP/HTTPS and XRI 
discovery are already big enough.

However, I clearly have a bias for lots of small specs over one large 
spec, and clearly your bias is the opposite. :)




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