On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Breno de Medeiros <br...@google.com> wrote:
> If we start the process to form a WG for discovery now, most likely the > process would only be completed in 6 months, even if there was considerable > agreement and stable technologies to draw from. > > Right now, there is quite a bit of momentum and excitement about > Webfinger. The XRI TC is hoping to publish draft specs for XRD withing the > next 30 days. Concurrently, and in particular after that, it is hoped that > progress on webfinger will be speedy. Webfinger spec discussion may take > place at either XRI TC or IETF. > Even if webfinger does become its own spec, I'm not confident it will be end up looking the same in the context of OpenID (there are thorny issues like Authority to contend with: e.g., what system is the meta-data authority for an email address? DNS? Web (Host-meta?)? Both? Something-else? I guess my opinion is that this work needs to happen in both places, so why not start it here as well. Should we just start responding to all threads about OpenID 2.x discovery by > saying that the discussion is taking place at some other mailing list? Last point to reiterate: There are a lot of Discovery issues besides email addresses and XRD. See the wiki for more.
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