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[Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter AT stpeter.im>]

Mrinal Kant wrote:
> On 9/8/07, jer <jeremie AT jabber.org> wrote:
>>  While I like the spirit of this, it makes it awfully painful to implement
>> just to check/validate a microid when you consider it part of the actual
>> MicroID spec.  I don't think the value gained is worth the overall pain :(
> 
> Sure, it adds pain. But that would be not-so-great a price to pay for
> a far greater flexibility. And I also agree that what I am suggesting
> is perhaps a layer on top of MicroID (clarified to me by Peter
> Saint-Andre). Thus, I may have made a poor choice of subject for this
> thread. But I think, for MicroID to be really usable by multiple sites
> to which users may choose to reveal different identities while
> claiming the same uri, this layer is needed. MicroID will change but
> all consumers will not all change with it or in sync with each other.
> Therefore, the minimum that one has to add to the MicroID is a version
> number. But then again to put hashes corresponding to 3 versions and
> two identities, one has to work on six entries in all the claimed uri.
> 
> Wouldn't it be far easier to have it all in one place - a place that
> could probably be offered by some service provider or it could be your
> own; like with OpenID. And just point to this place in the uri which
> is being claimed. That way, there would be just one entry to work
> with, and that too when you decide to change the place where all
> MicroIDs reside.
> 
>> What your suggesting is already "ideally" workable though if you consider
>> using links and the rel attribute, and just link to your homepage where the
>> MicroID actually is published?

+1

> You are right. But I avoided using <link rel="..." .../> because the
> freedom available with meta is not available with link as can be seen
> from http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xhtml-modularization-20040218/

I don't see what XHTML modularization has to do with it...

> Nothing new about that. MicroID already sits in meta in the html head.
> 
> What I have in mind is something like the following:

So try it out. Experiment. See if it works with <link/> and <meta/>.
Then report back to us with feedback. Right now this discussion seems
awfully abstract to me. :)

/psa

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Peter Saint-Andre
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