On Jan 30, 2006, at 16:13, Jonathan Daugherty wrote:
# I assume that does OpenID, LID and YADIS given the
development you
# guys have been doing on those areas?
Nope. It's an OpenID-only patch.
# Is it just Relying Party support, or does it also enable registered
# Wikipedia users to use their Wikipedia identity with other places?
The patch lets people use their OpenID identities to authenticate to
MediaWiki; that's all.
In which case, I'd argue that we'd rather not deliver URL-based
identity functionality piece-meal to the nice folks at Wikipedia who
would probably like to avoid having to do more integration more often
than necessary ...
I was told this morning that V0.9 of the YADIS spec is done as of
yesterday and will be on-line shortly. The purpose of this spec --
which for all practical purposes could have been called 1.0RC1 -- is
to give implementors like yourself the opportunity to provide final
feedback, and will be renamed to 1.0 within the month or so unless
something very unexpected happens.
For those of you on this list who don't know what this is all about
-- YADIS is the discovery mechanism that "everybody" with URL-based
identity technologies has agreed to, and as far as I know, most
(all?) OpenID (and LID, and i-names, ...) implementors have agreed to
"upgrade" their implementation to YADIS.
http://yadis.org/
Of course, what does and doesn't make it into the Wikipedia code base
when is entirely up to their team ... these are just my thoughts. And
yes, I'd absolutely love to see broad URL-based identity support in
Wikipedia...
--
Jonathan Daugherty
JanRain, Inc.
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