specs Digest, Vol 40, Issue 11

[Allen Tom]

+1 
Interop is very important ­ having different schemas to represent the same
data hurts adoption.

Allen


On 12/6/09 10:23 AM, "Chris Messina" <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:

> Whatever we do in regard to discovery or profile attributes, I want to voice
> my concern again that the AXSchema unnecessarily fragments the number of
> profile attribute schemas.
> 
> I'm specifically pointing out that AXSchema reinvents vcard and a host of
> other profile formats, which adds yet another burden for developers to map
> other schema, like Portable Contacts, to the AXSchema. 
> 
> This may not seem like a big deal, and perhaps it's not in the scheme of
> things (no pun intended), but I would very much like to see AX 1.1 or whatever
> recommend the use of PoCo-derived schema.
> 
> Chris
> 
>> On 12/6/09 9:54 AM, "John Bradley" <john.bradley at wingaa.com
>> <http://john.bradley@wingaa.com> > wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I like the short URL alias idea but I think that may take longer to get
>>> agreement on.
>>> 
>>> John B.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2009-12-06, at 2:16 PM, Allen Tom wrote:
>>> 
>>>> We also support the user¹s preferred language, timezone, and nickname (aka
>>>> display name ­ not guaranteed to be unique). I didn¹t mention  these extra
>>>> attributes in the blog post since they¹re probably not going to be as
>>>> widely used as name, email address, and profile pic.
>>>> 
>>>> It would be great if AX had a way for OPs to advertise what attributes were
>>>> available via Discovery. I ran into Luke Shepard on the Caltrain a couple
>>>> weeks ago and he suggested the schema and aliases to shrink the excessively
>>>> long urls. Hopefully we can get this into AX 1.1.
> 

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