+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" <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected] >> <http://[email protected]> > 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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