[OpenID] is openid 2.0 a lightweight identity system?

[Johannes Ernst]

Are you volunteering? ;-)


On Feb 9, 2007, at 14:41, Simon Willison wrote:

> On 2/9/07, Recordon, David <drecordon at verisign.com> wrote:
>> Quick answer from my perspective, but Yadis lets you say I support
>> OpenID Authentication 1.1 and the OpenID Simple Registration  
>> Extension
>> 1.0.  Without it, how do you know what extensions the OP supports
>> without adding a bunch of link tags?
>>
>> It also allows the discovery document (XRDS) to be fetched via  
>> semantics
>> in the HTTP request, making it easier for a large organization to  
>> deploy
>> OpenID versus having to insert HTML markup on every page.
>
> OK, I'm sold - adding XRDS to a ton of pages through a bit of web
> server configuration is a really neat trick that I hadn't heard
> discussed before. Could definitely do with better explanations in the
> specs and supporting documents though!



Johannes Ernst
NetMesh Inc.


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