Shade, If we assume web finger will be used to advertise the user's OpenID provider, it would appear in the XRD document. So, a Relaying Party might query google.com and get an XRD document for me that points to yahoo.com for OpenID.
I'm still not clear on what you are suggesting. That's not to mean you don't have an interesting idea, but I do not understand the proposal and how it would be better than using data inside XRD documents. Paul > -----Original Message----- > From: SitG Admin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:36 AM > To: Paul E. Jones > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Email Address to URL Transformation > > >I don't quite understand your proposal. Can you elaborate? > > The part I'm solid on so far is that, since Yahoo owns Flickr, and > hosting the service at yahooapis.com indicates that it doesn't *need* > to host the service at the domain it acts for, could it have another > part of the requested URL specify which domain it was answering for? > > The part I'm still thinking over (not sure it would work) is; > > http://webfinger.google.com/?site=goohoo.org&id=user > http://webfinger.yahoo.com/?site=goohoo.org&id=user > > Where "goohoo.org" is a joint Google-Yahoo community. > > Standard complications apply :( > > -Shade > _______________________________________________ specs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs
