Re: [xri] Aligning XRD with Link (Header/Element)

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Brian Eaton <>
Date
2008-11-25T21:30:58+00:00
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Re: [xri] Aligning XRD with Link (Header/Element)
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:57 PM, John Bradley <> wrote:
> Adoption is huge when you consider that this also impacts the existing base
> of URI openIDs as well.
> Telling openID providers that every user will have to have an old style XRDS
> and a new style XRD as separate documents is going to be a hard sell.
> This may be the best time but we need to keep in mind that real people are
> using this now and we need to transition them in some plausible way.

I agree, we need a transition plan.  Tying the XRD syntax change to
OpenID 2.1 might work.