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[Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter AT jabber.org>]

Evan Prodromou wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-12 at 09:13 -0700, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 
>> That's fine by me. But we do need to think about the data definitions.
>> I'm thinking especially of OpenID. For example, how do we clearly
>> differentiate between a regular old HTTP URL and an OpenID URL (the
>> latter is simply an instance of the former, but how to we know that
>> programmatically)?
> 
> We know that programmatically because an OpenID identifies a person and
> thus goes in the first slot of the MicroID. Any other URL representing a
> resource like a Web page goes in the second slot.

But how do we know programmatically when we create the microid that a
given URL is an OpenID?

/psa

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