Separation of Discovery from AuthN (was Proposal to form Discovery Working Group)

[Drummond Reed]

Agreed that it makes sense to split it out when the underlying work (XRD
1.0) is ready.

 

=Drummond 

 

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From: David Recordon [mailto:drecordon at sixapart.com] 
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 11:24 PM
To: Drummond Reed
Cc: sappenin at gmail.com; 'Nat Sakimura'; 'John Bradley'; specs at openid.net
Subject: Re: Separation of Discovery from AuthN (was Proposal to form
Discovery Working Group)

 

I'd advocate for waiting until all of the discovery work occurring in OASIS,
IETF, and W3C shakes out before we make changes to how OpenID discovery
works.  I'd much rather make this sort of change once rather than twice.

 

--David

 

On Jan 4, 2009, at 11:14 PM, Drummond Reed wrote:





I'm just catching up on holiday mail and wanted to add another +1 to
separation of Discovery from AuthN. The sooner the better.

 

=Drummond

 

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From: specs-bounces at openid.net [mailto:specs-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf
Of David Fuelling
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 8:47 AM
To: Nat Sakimura
Cc: John Bradley; specs at openid.net
Subject: Re: Proposal to form Discovery Working Group

 

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Nat Sakimura <n-sakimura at nri.co.jp> wrote:

2. Separation of OP into Discovery Service and Authentication Service.
 In the current terminology, OP spans both Discovery Service and
Authentication Service.
 We should be explicit about it.


+1.  I would like to see discovery services separated from OP services too.
 



John Bradley wrote:
> Breno,
>
> I agree.  I recommended separating discovery into a separate doc for
> 2.1.
>
> There didn't seem to be support for the idea at the time,  perhaps
> circumstances have changed and the idea will be accepted now.
>
> Regards
> John Bradley
> =jbradley

 

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