On 30-May-07, at 6:21 PM, Martin Atkins wrote: > John Panzer wrote: >> >> Has there been a discussion about an extension to map to/from i- >> numbers >> via AX? If there were a generic attribute you could stuff an i- >> number >> or a hash of an internal ID in there to help solve the disambiguation >> problem. Alternatively it'd be nice to have a way to ask when the >> account was created, if the OP is amenable. >> > > If you're going to use i-numbers, then there's no reason at all not to > use the XRD CanonicalID element. The same mechanism that's used to map > i-names onto i-numbers can also be used to map URLs onto i-numbers, or > URLs onto other URLs. > > I'm sure Drummond can talk in more detail about this. We did > discuss it > briefly at IIW, but once the majority had decided that the fragment > approach was the way to go we didn't get a chance to investigate this > further.
We did look at this (with Drummond) in December. The bottom line is that it can't be done easily - a mechanism similar to XRI's canonical ID verification would have to be employed, to confirm that the i- number actually 'belongs' to the URL on which discovery was initiated. (Otherwise anyone could put any i-number in their URL- based XRDS files.) Johnny _______________________________________________ specs mailing list specs@openid.net http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs