RFC: Final outstanding issues with the OpenID 2.0Authenticationspecification

[Gabe Wachob]

BTW, we (the XRI TC cochairs) finally (!) came to agreement at IIW to
publish the current draft of the XRI Res spec as a citeable committee spec
so the issue about XRI specs being in draft form and unciteable goes away.
That is, we'll hold a TC vote on what has already been implemented by the
openid community and call it XRI resolution 2.0 (which has been relatively
stable, but not final, for a long time already). XRI Syntax 2.0 has been a
committee spec for a long time now and has not changed. The agreement was,
essentially, to output res 2.0 wd 11 (or thereabouts) as a committee spec
rather than wait for further work on XRI.  

We've not formally presented this to the TC, but I am almost certain the TC
will agree to this. 

It is my expectation that we'll complete this in roughly the same timeframe
as the other work being completed in OpenID 2.0 (that is, on the order of
weeks). 

	-Gabe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: specs-bounces at openid.net [mailto:specs-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf
> Of Josh Hoyt
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 1:40 PM
> To: Dmitry Shechtman
> Cc: OpenID specs list
> Subject: Re: RFC: Final outstanding issues with the OpenID
> 2.0Authenticationspecification
> 
> On 5/17/07, Dmitry Shechtman <damnian at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "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/.
> 
> -1. If XRI is to be included, it should be done the way that it's
> intended. One possible solution that would address this problem as
> well as the unfinished XRI specification is to split out Yadis and XRI
> discovery out from the OpenID Authentication spec and into separate
> documents. That way, they could wait until the XRI specs are done and
> the OpenID spec will be shorter and easier to understand.
> 
> Josh
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