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  • From: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter AT jabber.org>
  • To: Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>
  • Cc: microid AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Microid] MicroID hashing algorithm(s) and normalization
  • Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:33:56 -0700

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?

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