Starting a new thread here based on an earlier one quoted below. Let us reconsider the definition of OpenID for V.next. I would like to see a new definition for OpenID.
"An OpenID is Any Valid URI that can be resolved to it's Descriptor". Now let me give a little explanation on the above, with a few points. 1) Existing OpenID's version 1 and 2 are compatible with the above definition. (http(s) OpenId's version 1 and 2 do resolve to their descriptor's) 2) Email like identifiers are compatible with the above definition with the webfinger protocol, and ofcourse resolve to their descriptor's. Now any other future protocol that can make its URI resolvable to a descriptor, will also be a Valid OpenID. Let me give an example. According to the above definition we can make "tag URI's" valid OpenID's, as long as we have a protocol to resolve this URI to its's descriptor. tag:[email protected] <tag%[email protected]>,2007-11-02:Tag_URI Now as far as I am concerned tag URI's are even better as OpenID's, because they are unique over space and time. Webfinger support for tag URI's anyone? :-) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paul E. Jones <[email protected]> Date: Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:11 AM Subject: RE: Draft charter for v.Next Attributes working group To: Santosh Rajan <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Jones <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Santosh, Why not store the claimed ID in the webfinger (LRDD) XRD document? The objective, I would hope, is to make it easier to log into web sites. Email-style identifiers make that easier, but the system does not have to be built around those. So, I sign up with a service provider. Let’s just use my own site as an example. I am assigned an email address [email protected]. Behind the scenes, I am also assign an OpenID ID http://openid.packetizer.com/paulej. Now, when I visit a web site, I can type ‘[email protected]’ and the site can perform a webfinger query to discovery by OpenID ID. We would define a link relation (something we’ve talked about before) that represents openid. It could be http://openid.net/identity or it could be simply “openid” (since link relations need not be URIs). Looking at the href of the “openid” link relation, one would find my OpenID URI http://openid.packetizer.com/paulej. Now, should I wish to have a different email provider than my openid provider, that’s fine: I could change the record associated with the openid link relation to contain a different OpenID identifier. Alternatively, I could just get an account at someopenidop.com and they might assign an e-mail style address like [email protected] and perform the Webfinger resolution behind the scenes. Anyway, issue this request: $ curl http://www.packetizer.com/lrdd/?uri=acct:[email protected] You’ll see the link relation for my claimed ID: <Link rel="http://openid.net/identity"; href="http://openid.packetizer.com/paulej"/> It does introduce another protocol, but I think these play nicely together. The real identity would remain the URL that OpenID uses today. The email identifier would just be an alias for it. Paul *From:* Santosh Rajan [mailto:[email protected]] *Sent:* Tuesday, May 11, 2010 12:39 PM *To:* Paul E. Jones *Cc:* Mike Jones; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] *Subject:* Re: Draft charter for v.Next Attributes working group On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Paul E. Jones <[email protected]> wrote: Adding support for email-style addresses is something I like, but something that can be provided via webfinger. Thus, no change to the base protocol. I beg to disagree here. I think the base protocol needs to address the issue of email like identifiers. I would like to see that email like identifiers are valid OpenID claimed id's. So something like acct:example @ example.com should be a valid OpenID claimed_id. Also this discussion should not be in this thread (about attributes) and maybe someone could start a new thread on this subject. Thanks Santosh http://hi.im/santosh -- http://hi.im/santosh
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