On 4-Apr-07, at 1:16 PM, Recordon, David wrote: > Johnny, > I see a lot of, at least my initial confusion, coming from there being > multiple documents. This is why I urge merging the transport and > metadata since the reality is they currently are only being used with > each other. As the metadata document doesn't actually define a new > format, rather references existing formats, I am unsure why it cannot > just be a section in the transport document. It is understood that > you > must use the metadata format for the schema URLs in the transport, so > the two documents really are coupled to begin with.
Actually it is describing a document format, and it could easily be used by other groups as evidenced by references from people in the ID Schemas group. > > I agree that you need to bootstrap a set of attributes for people > using > AX. As I have done so in the past, I'd encourage this work happen > within the ID Schemas project (http://idschemas.idcommons.net/) versus > defining First Name yet again for openid.net. I have no problem with > the spec listing a set of schema URLs, I just strongly feel that > anything non-OpenID specific should be hosted and defined elsewhere > since so many people have already done it. I do understand the > need for > the schema URL hosting the metadata document, which is why I am > advocating this work be done as part of the ID Schemas project to > provide this flexibility. see my response to Drummond ... We defined a set of attributes 6 months ago under schema.openid.net. I think we have let other groups have time to do something, I'd like to get on with building and deploying stuff. -- Dick _______________________________________________ specs mailing list specs@openid.net http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/specs