On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:19 PM, SitG Admin <[email protected]>wrote:
> There's a significant camp of people that believe this information should >> be included in DNS. There's also a significant group of people who believe >> it could be located an XRD file (or, "on the web"). >> > > What if the discovery document says "E-mail this autoresponder address."? > > Should all discovery (in OpenID) be able to take place over the HTTP/HTTPS > protocol, or will it be flexible enough to accept plugins for extending the > base discovery method? > > -Shade > I'm inclined to support the latter -- In some future version of OpenID Auth (possibly even 2.1), I would love to see a bunch of OpenID Extension specs that deal only with the topic of Discovery. In fact, one way to go (and this is admittedly a bit radical) would be to just define a generic way to do Discovery in the main OpenID Auth 2.1 core document, and then make _every_ identifier into an extension. That includes URL, XRI, email, etc. Radical, I know, but I like modularity, and it will likely preclude the debate about why we should or shoud not be able to use email addresses as OpenID's. Or why we should/should not use my fingerprint as an OpenID.
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