On 6-Apr-07, at 10:34 AM, Johannes Ernst wrote: >> Well, as one of the people that wrote the documents. We decided that >> having separate documents was better. Thanks for sharing your >> opinion. I have a different opinion. > > For somebody who currently doesn't have an opinion on this subject, > could you briefly describe the rationale for your view?
If I'm only interested in moving attributes around (the current case of the OpenID libraries), I am not interested at all what the semantic of the attributes are, just in moving them from A to B. I'll let the parties at the both ends of the transaction look up the metadata and handle them based on that. On the other hand when I read a (new) spec it's a lot easier for me if there are clearly outlined components with which I don't necessarily have to deal at the same time; especially if the components have other uses beside the initial combination. These two seem to have been the rationale of the recent discussions about splitting the OpenID spec into core/discovery/etc., which seemed to make sense to a number of people (I'm just not sure if it's worth / good tactical move at this stage....). Johnny _______________________________________________ specs mailing list specs@openid.net http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs
