That is where rel-me falls down in this application. It certainly expresses equivalency, but without indicating where to go to perform *authentication*, you could specify any number of rel-me links without giving the RP any idea of where to go to validate the user.<div>
<br></div><div>It's also not possible to use more than one rel value, so we're stuck having to pick one.</div><div><br></div><div>What is the specific problem with .../provider [1] again?</div><div><br></div><div>
Chris</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0/provider">http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0/provider</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Allen Tom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atom@yahoo-inc.com">atom@yahoo-inc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">rel=me seems to make more sense, however, not all rel=me URLs are OpenID enabled.<br>
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Allen<div class="im"><br>
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On 3/22/10 1:57 PM, "John Panzer" <<a href="http://jpanzer@google.com" target="_blank">jpanzer@google.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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PROPOSED:<br>
acct:<a href="http://bob@gmail.com" target="_blank">bob@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:acct%3Abob@gmail.com" target="_blank">mailto:acct%3Abob@gmail.com</a>> maps with rel=<a href="http://openid.net/identity" target="_blank">http://openid.net/identity</a> to <a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/3922823829347234234" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/profiles/3922823829347234234</a><div class="im">
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=="My OpenID identity is this OpenID over there" -- reads okay, but wouldn't rel="me" be the same?<br>
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