Hey Breno,
I think this is a good point and judging from this thread already,
there seems to be a group of people really interested in working on
discovery for OpenID. If we can frame the working group in the right
way (David Fuelling framed it well as "I guess I'm more of the opinion
that the 2.1 Discovery WG is going to produce a "guidance document"
about 2.1 Discovery") then I think it should be a good thing. That
said, let's do a really good job of defining the goals.
I'll spend some time going over the wiki page WG proposal this week.
--David
On Jun 9, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Breno de Medeiros wrote:
And I agree with you. My view is that in the absence of an OpenID
discovery WG there will be _more_ uncertainty about future
directions for the spec, not less.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:13 PM, David Fuelling <sappe...@gmail.com>
wrote:
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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