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One of the many promises of OpenID is the ability to more easily federate profile information from an identity provider to secondary consumer applications.
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formats. I’d like to propose a vast simplification of this problem by adopting attributes from the vCard standard (also known as RFC2426). As you probably know, it’s this standard that defines the attributes of the hCard microformat and therefore is exceptionally appropriate for the case of OpenID (given its reliance on URLs for identifiers!).
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(I’d venture that there are many million hcards in the wild), it only makes sense to leverage the upward trend in the adoption of hcard and to use it as a parallel partner in the OpenID-profile-exchange dance.
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While AX is well specified, hCard is well supported (as well as well-specified).
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Most importantly, however, hcard and vcard is already widely supported in existing applications like Outlook, Mail.app and just about every mobile phone on the planet and in just about any other application that exchanges profile data.
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Gary BurgeUnfortunately, both Simple Registration (SREG for short) and its potential successor Attribute Exchange (AX) go to strange lengths to reinvent the profile data wheel with their own exclusive formats. I’d like to propose a vast simplification of this pro
OpenID hCard standards microformats social registration identity ChrisMessina
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02 Nov 07
Kazuhito Kidachi"I’m hoping that reason and sense will prevail and that OpenID and hCard will naturally come together as two essential building blocks for independents."
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