The general list had nothing to say so far. Is that something that should be 
covered in an addendum / errata ... or other document?


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> From: Johannes Ernst <[email protected]>
> Date: January 4, 2010 10:18:48 PST
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [OpenID] openid error mode
> 
> Apparently a few people in the wild do implement openid.error. What do RPs do 
> when they receive that? Display it to the user? Throw up their hands and say 
> "something weird happened"?
> 
> There are plenty of problems with the way openid.error is (under-) defined, 
> including:
> - not internationalizable
> - not computer-interpretable
> - unclear whether the conveyed text message is formatted, or how.
> 
> Questions:
> 1. Could we come up with an enumeratable list of error conditions, or are 
> everybody's possible errors different? Error codes?
> 2. Should we define that the error message be used for internal logging or to 
> be shown to the user?
> 3. If the latter, should we define that the locale of the error message 
> should be the user's locale at the OP? What if the problem is that the user 
> is not known at the OP? Should the RP pass on a locale?
> 
> Happy new year everybody,
> 
> 
> 
> Johannes.
> 
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