RFC: Final outstanding issues with the OpenID 2.0 Authenticationspecification

[Dmitry Shechtman]

> I think this argument is bogus. There is hardly any additional
> complexity aside from XRI and Yadis. I'm willing to entertain
> suggestions for simplifying the handling of those discovery
> mechanisms. The specification is significantly *longer*, but that's
> primarily because it's much more rigorously specified. If you want it
> simplified, don't just talk abstractly about complexity, make
> suggestions about how to simplify it.

"aside from XRI and Yadis"? XRI alone is twice as complex as OpenID 1.1!

There has been a simplification suggestion floating around since long ago:
resolve i-names via http[s]://xri.net/.


Regards,
Dmitry
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