resolvable spec URIs

[Will Norris]

On Feb 22, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Nat Sakimura wrote:

> Thanks very much Will,
> 
> This is what we needed for a long time.
> 
> Inline:
> 
> (2010/02/23 10:26), Will Norris wrote:
>> just a heads up that I've added a few mod_rewrite rules to openid.net so that the following spec URIs actually redirect to their respective spec documents:
>>   http://openid.net/signon/1.1
>>   http://openid.net/sreg/1.0
>>   http://openid.net/sreg/1.1
>>   http://openid.net/srv/ax/1.0
>> 
>> 
>> I'm not sure what to do about the URI for OpenID Auth 1.0, because there is no nice HTML version of the spec that I can find.  Any suggestions?  Just redirect it to the 1.1 spec, since it's effectively identical?
>>   http://openid.net/signon/1.0
>>   
> I think, redirecting to 1.1 spec is a sensible thing to do.
>> 
>> And the following URIs are use sub-domains, so I can't set them up.  If we could get someone at OSL to setup CNAMEs and Apache virtual hosts for "specs.openid.net" and "schemas.openid.net", I'll get these setup as well:
>>   http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0
>>   http://specs.openid.net/extensions/pape/1.0
>>   http://schemas.openid.net/pape/policies/2007/06/phishing-resistant
>>   http://schemas.openid.net/pape/policies/2007/06/multi-factor
>>   http://schemas.openid.net/pape/policies/2007/06/multi-factor-physical
>> 
>> Are there any others that I missed?
>>   
> Not that I recall.
> 
> On the side note, we need to set up a spec URL creation rule, I suppose.
> I prefer short ones :-)

yes, as the above list shows, there has been little to no consistency with URI naming.  I would definitely like to see some kind of common format for any newly minted URIs in the openid.net namespace.  (I'm sure this will be a great topic to bring the bike-shedders out of the woodwork)

-will