Attribute Exchange external reference?

[Dick Hardt]

The "attribute" exchanged can be a reference rather then the data  
itself.

http://axschema.org/media/image/default/

Is an example.

-- Dick

On 4-Jun-07, at 12:23 AM, =nat wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I am kind of new to this field, and this topic may have been discussed
> before, but since a Google search on [site:http://openid.net/ 
> pipermail/
> attribute exchange external reference ] did not match anything, let  
> me bring
> this up.
>
> On scanning http://openid.net/specs/openid-attribute- 
> exchange-1_0-05.html,
> which looked pretty good, a question "Would it be even nicer if we  
> could
> have a hook for external data source?" came up to my mind.
>
> For example, if we could write something like
>
> openid.ax.type.externalref=http://example.com/schema/ 
> industry_specific_data
> openid.ax.value.externalref=http://example.com/specific_data.xml
>
> in the response, and have the client fetch the document from http:// 
> example.
> com/specific_data.xml (if it understands the schema type of it), it  
> would be
> useful in bringing OpenID framework and something else together.
>
> I initially thought that it could be done in the New Attribute Process
> [http://openid.net/specs/openid-attribute- 
> types-1_0-02.html#anchor6], but
> since it requires fetching of external document and thus changes  
> the client
> behavior, I brought up this here.
>
> Any thought?
>
> =nat
>
>
>
>
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