Proposal to form Discovery Working Group

[Mike Jones]

Can you add a clear statement to the draft charter that implementations already using Yadis will remain compatible with the output of this working group, since, as I understand it, XRDS-Simple is intended to be compatible with Yadis?  Or is backwards-compatibility with existing OpenID 2.0 implementations not a goal of this work?

                                -- Mike

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From: specs-bounces at openid.net [mailto:specs-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf Of Breno de Medeiros
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 6:14 PM
To: OpenID Specs Mailing List
Cc: David Recordon; Brian Eaton; Johannes Ernst
Subject: Proposal to form Working Group

I would like to submit the following proposal for a working group
charter (also available at
http://wiki.openid.net/Working_Groups:Discovery):

Services and Metadata Discovery Coordination Working Group (Discovery)

Charter Proposal

In accordance with the OpenID Foundation IPR policies and procedures
this note proposes the formation of a new working group chartered to
produce an OpenID specification. As per Section 4.1 of the Policies,
the proposed charter is below (still liable to change during this
feedback period).


I. Name

Services and Metadata Discovery Coordination Working Group (Discovery)


II. Statement of Purpose

Produce a document describing the OpenID discovery workflow, updating
the current mechanism to describe how to use OASIS specifications for
discovery, to be drafted by the OASIS XRI TC. The intention is that
the document will be incorporated as part of some future version of
the OpenID Authentication spec.


III. Scope

Produce a document describing the use of OASIS discovery
specifications as formulated by the OASIS XRI TC, for normative
application by all other OpenID specifications. Produce a document
describing the recommended migration of services discovery from the
Yadis 1.0 specification to the discovery specifications currently
being developed by the OASIS XRI TC. All types of identifiers
addressed by OASIS XRI TC discovery (XRD 1.0) are within scope of this
WG. Publish a list of service and resource types supported by the
discovery mechanism.


IV. Specifications

OpenID Discovery, including a sub-spec for Trusted OpenID Discovery,
and a best-practices guidance document for migration.


V. Anticipated audience

All those interested in the OpenID specifications.


VI. Language of business

English.


VII. Method of work

Mailing list discussion. Posting of intermediate drafts in the OpenID
Wiki. Virtual conferencing on an ad-hoc basis.


VIII. Basis for completion of the activity

The discovery document is final and all deliverables have been
incorporated into the OpenID Authentication spec, perhaps by
reference.


Background Information


I. Related Work

XRD 1.0 spec, being drafted by the OASIS XRI TC.


II. Initial Membership

    * Brian Eaton, beaton at google.com, Google, Inc.
    * Johannes Ernst, jernst at netmesh.us, NetMesh. (editor)
    * Eran Hammer-Lahav, eran at hueniverse.com, Yahoo! Inc.
    * Breno de Medeiros, breno at google.com, Google, Inc. (editor)
    * David Recordon, david at sixapart.com, Six Apart Ltd.
    * Drummond Reed, drummond.reed at cordance.net, Cordance
    * Nat Sakimura, n-sakimura at nri.co.jp, NRI

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