Re: [OAUTH-WG] [kitten] OAuth Discovery and what the relying partyneeds to know

[SM <[e-mail]>]

Hi Justin,

[not sure why kitten@ is in the Cc.  Feel free to drop]

At 08:15 10-05-2012, Justin Richer wrote:
>"user@domain" represents a person. SMTP, XMPP, SIP, and other 
>protocols have used this format successfully. OpenID made the 
>mistake of trying to teach people that "http://domain/user"  could 
>also stand for them, but people just don't think of themselves in 
>terms of HTTP URLs. Webfinger came about to address this, and SWD adopted

The strings industry probably have some reason to believe that people 
think of themselves in terms of domain names.  Some people think of 
the other person in terms of "what's your [insert social 
network]?".  There are several specifications which reference rfc822 
identifiers.  The interesting point in the above is what will be 
people's expected behavior while taking into account the usual 
technical limitations.

Regards,
-sm